Search email?

[Nooblet]

Hi Vero, 

 

Thank you for the welcome! Yeah, I ended up digging around some more and found the thread you linked there. I am indeed on Catalina, I didn't think it would have such tragic effects 😢. Mail search is the only reason I open spotlight anymore.

 

Btw, I am new to macOS and I think Alfred is going to be a huge part of what keeps me here. 

[snowy]

I was able to make a hacky workaround using AppleScript. It takes the Alfred query puts it in the pasteboard open spotlight and pastes in spotlight with refinements. I made one for general, subject, and from. The query gets left in the pasteboard in case you want to refine further and you exit Spotlight. (recommend Alfred's clipboard history here...obviously  🤣)

 

if anyone is interested I can post it. it's ridiculously basic, but helpful. (side note: I tried bash, python and AppleScript to search emlx files. they all took forever to search when you get over 1k emails...so basically not useful for anyone)

 

Example:

Alferd query:

em George

Spotlight:

kind:mail George

[Indaada]

Please post it here. Thank you :)