Mail 2.0 will return partly-overlapping but different matches for searches in the “Entire Message” (powered by Spotlight’s technology) and searches by “Subject, To or From addresses” (powered by Apple Mail’s internal SQLite database). This sometimes leads to odd results.

A post on macOSXHints discusses the how and the why of the differences.

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