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10.5: Force Spotlight to search MAIL
Authored by: popser on Feb 10, '08 08:15:00AM

In my MAIL 3.1 which came with my new Mac (OS10.5.1) I can search mail using FROM, TO, and SUBJECT, but it will not search a folder or all folders using ENTIRE MESSAGE, nor will Spotlight search MAIL. I tried rebuilding mailboxes--no luck. I tried the advice to use Terminal and insert (find "$HOME/Library/Mail/Mailboxes" -name '*.mbox' -exec mdimport '{}' \;). No luck. Spotlight still could not find text within MAIL messages, nor could MAIL itself. Any other ideas? I really need the search function which worked fine in 10.2, 10.4, but not in 10.5.1.



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