Feedback: search within attachments needed in mail

Hello,
I really need to be able to search within attachments within mail.
Specifically I need to be able to search within attached PDF and Word documents, through my entire email store.
it is important that it searches within all emails, regardless of whether or not the attachment has been saved to disk. I am aware that attachments saved to disk are searched but this is no substitute at all for being able to search through my 30,000 or so emails. Also I need to see the results within the email program, not within Spotlight.
Searching within attachments seems such an obviously needed feature, its a puzzle as to why it is not there.
Thanks
Andrew

The puzzle for me is that in fact, in Leopard 10.5.2 and Mail 3.2, Mail.app sometimes searches into attachments, sometimes not.
More specifically: I produced a message with a Word attachment with a infrequent word in it. I sent it to various account I have in Mail, and then searched for the word. Some of the messages are found others not. I cannot find a pattern. Sucessive forwards of the same message to the same account produce disfferent results (some of the messages show up in search others not).
This seems to be message related: if a message shows it will always show, and vice-versa.
Joaquim

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