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schuey100 · May 4, 2005, 01:53 PM

I've just noticed something strange. Mail will only show results of a search if you have actually viewed an email with that search text in it.

Eg,

The word username

This was in an old email and I wanted to find the email referring to it. It didn't show in mail search.

I eventually found the email manually and looked into it. Then, when I used the search in Mail again for the same term, the email was found. This happens almost everytime.

Is it just me or has anybody else got the same problem? I forced spotlight to do a re-index but the same problem remains. It even happens with emails that I've sent today. They don't show up until I've actually viewed them.

CatOne · May 4, 2005, 08:44 PM

Are they IMAP or POP messages? If they're IMAP, they may not have been cached to local disk, which would be necessary for Spotlight to index them.

schuey100 · May 5, 2005, 06:06 PM

No, they're POP. It's very strange.