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Lion Mail search: limited?
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In Snow Leopard, if I wanted to see all my email receipts for all time from Amazon, I'd type "amazon" in the search field and it would show me every email that contained "amazon" in the currently selected mailbox. Now, in Lion, if I do the same thing, it seems that only recent emails get listed (last month only? Not sure what it's doing). A drop-down list does appear with more options for search, but I just want to see all my Amazon emails. If I select from the drop-down list "Subject contains amazon", then I get everything the way I expect.
Is this an option somewhere? This is a recent MobileMe to iCloud transition, but I don't recall if this happened before the transition.
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Steve
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Have you tried to rebuild your mailbox.?
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Search in Lion mail is not so much limited as fundamentally broken. I've lost count of the number of times it's failed to dig up emails when searching by name, or content, or subject. Or anything really. I have people who I have corresponded with for several years and who have mailed me hundreds of times that as far as mail is concerned simply do not exist.
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It sounds like we're going to need Mountain Lion to correct the myriad of issues with Lion. . . .
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Originally Posted by Doc HM 
Search in Lion mail is not so much limited as fundamentally broken. I've lost count of the number of times it's failed to dig up emails when searching by name, or content, or subject. Or anything really. I have people who I have corresponded with for several years and who have mailed me hundreds of times that as far as mail is concerned simply do not exist.
So are you saying you've seen similar issues to what I saw with my example?
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I've also initially had problems with Mail after upgrading to Lion, cpu-usage spikes, bad search results, etc. Then I've rebuilt my mailboxes and everything works like a charm.
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I guess I'll be sticking with Postbox. I was thinking of trying OS X Mail at some point just for fun, but none of the problems I've heard about sound particularly fun.
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Huh. Well, as suggested, I simply rebuilt my mailbox, and now search is working correctly.
Thanks for the tip!
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Glad it worked for you.
I guess I'll be sticking with Postbox. I was thinking of trying OS X Mail at some point just for fun, but none of the problems I've heard about sound particularly fun.
Well, I have never had an issue with OS X Mail. You could try it anyway and report later how it goes Vs. Postbox.
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