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10.5: Force Spotlight to index old Mail messages
Authored by: jwz on Wed, Jan 30 2008 at 12:23PM PST

There's a much faster way to make Spotlight re-index all of your email: just run "mdimport -f" on each file like so:

find "$HOME/Library/Mail/Mailboxes" -name '*.mbox' -exec mdimport -f '{}' ;

Failing that, you can tell Spotlight to re-index the entire drive by doing:

mdutil -E /

10.5: Force Spotlight to index old Mail messages
Authored by: jwz on Wed, Jan 30 2008 at 12:25PM PST

(There should be a backslash before that final semicolon -- I typed it, but the comment form ate it.)