Last week’s mac techmail was Still frustrated with Apple Mail searching which gives some of the reasons, and some possible workarounds, to the awful search capabilities in Apple Mail. For a mail client today, it sure doesn’t offer very much power for email searching, yet on the Mac it’s one of the best GUI mail clients around (Thunderbird on the mac is OK, but not great). I still maintain that mutt on OS X is so much better.. at least it can do proper searching (which, for anyone with a lot of mail, really is important).