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		dsl on July 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So, That’s It For Thunderbird Mail.app has no problem searching and indexing all of my mail since 1998 (nearing 20 GB). I'm not sure what you are doing wrong... upgrade to an SSD maybe?

smsm42 on July 7, 2012 [–]

I didn't say it has problem searching, I said it has less options to do searches.

Samuel_Michon on July 7, 2012 | [–]

It doesn't though. OS X Mail uses Spotlight, meaning you can use Boolean operators and everything. It also has Smart Folders, for search queries you repeat often.

http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/How-To-Use-Mac-O...

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