“Entire Message” searches blank?
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
For a few days I have been having occasional problems with Spotlight-powered searches in Mail.app.
A search in “All Mailboxes” for a word in the “Entire Message” suddenly produces no results, although To, From or Subject searches which are drawn from Mail’s own SQLite database (see What’s in your Mail folder for more info) work fine.
The fix for this is simple. You need to force a reindex of Spotlight.
You can do this by typing some text 
into the terminal, by following the instructions in an Apple technote , or using a handly little app called Spotless .
