[monkeybrain]

I'm using my gmail with Mail. I wanted to find an email I wrote a while back that had the prescription for my contacts in it. Searching for this using spotlight in Mail wouldn't find it - when I knew it was there since I can search for it via the gmail web interface. I know the message is on my Mac.

Also, when you select 'Entire Message' as the search option it sometimes seems to miss searching the subject line (am I being stupid in thinking that 'entire message' means the subject, sender, receiver, and content?)

So my thought is that Spotlight has not properly indexed these emails, I hope that's the case and that it's not just Spotlight having a pretty big bug here. Now to find out how to re-index stuff...

[Aeschylus]

When I create a smart mailbox with two condions and specify "Any" of the conditions, if one of those conditions is that the mail is in a mailbox that exists on the hard drive, nothing at all in that mailbox is found. If there is only one condtion, then all the messages in that mailbox are found.

Reindexing has not helped.

[monkeybrain]

A reindexing fixed my issue. But I can confirm that Mail bug, quite silly isn't it!