11-08-2008, 07:36 PM
That's very interesting. I'm paranoid about protecting my data so I created an encrypted dmg containing folder "Mail" and "Mail Downloads" that are normally located in ~/Library. I set up symbolic links to these folders and placed these aliases in ~/Library which allows Mail to work normally. Should the MBP ever be stolen and login hacked or the HD swapped out my mail will be unreadable because it's encrypted. But having done this it now seems that Spotlight doesn't search in its index of the mounted dmg, hence the reason why Mail failed to search "entire message", although it does search "to" "from" and "subject". I think Spotlight had correctly indexed the dmg because when I temporarily reverted back to normal placement of library folders it immediately did an "entire message" search. I guess I'll have to live with this restricted search if I want to protect the data.