Hi John, in the search bar at the top of the main window is a little pulldown 
right next to the magnifying glass.  In there is a Default Mailbox selection 
menu.  See if changing that resolves it.

-Eric

On 28 Oct 2021, at 8:05, John Doherty via mailmate wrote:

> I got this changed to:
>
> $ defaults read com.freron.MailMate MmMailboxChooserBindings
> (
>         {
>         long = "imap://[email protected]/All%20Messages";
>         short = "All%20Messages";
>     }
> )
>
> But that did not change the behavior. When I click on a message header to 
> find other messages that match, it still defaults to searching in the mailbox 
> that used to be listed there.
>
> On Thu 2021-10-28 05:47 AM MDT -0600, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Following up on my own message again, I notice this in the output of 
>> "defaults read com.freron.MailMate":
>>
>>     MmMailboxChooserBindings =     (
>>                 {
>>             long = "imap://[email protected]/XXX";
>>             short = XXX;
>>         }
>>     );
>>
>> Where "imap://[email protected]" is the same as the value of 
>> MmDefaultAccount and "XXX" is the name of the smart mailbox that is 
>> seemingly being used as the default search target. I guess this may be the 
>> reason.
>>
>> I also notice that the value of MmDefaultAccount is an account that no 
>> longer exists. That doesn't seem to be causing any problems but it's 
>> interesting to note.
>>
>> Not exactly sure how to change this to work the way it used to and of 
>> course, no idea how it got to be this way.
>>
>> On Thu 2021-10-28 05:24 AM MDT -0600, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I often use the Mailmate feature of clicking on part of a message 
>>> header -- From:, Subject:, To: -- to find other messages that match. I love 
>>> this feature.
>>>
>>> Until recently, when I did that, Mailmate would select and search in the 
>>> "All Messages" mailbox, which is exactly what I want. But now it is 
>>> selecting and searching within a particular recently-created smart mailbox, 
>>> which is never what I want.
>>>
>>> No idea what I did to change this behavior and no idea how to get back to 
>>> the previous behavior. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.
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