Enable wiki search accross entire messages

is it possible to enable the wiki search to search more than the subject? so that the entire message is searched and not just the subject? i mean a kind of search like the apple discussions forum use
thanks
fh.

Why not just ask carrier to enable MMS? I know T-Mobile can and will do it, even if there is no data plan at all on the line. We did it for my daughter and I know T-Mobile has done it for others. I assume other carriers do the same, but don't know....Which is why I ask.
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With previous iOS, the "Search conversations" function did work for Messages (in the Messages list, tap the top of the screen to display the search field, then enter the text you’re looking for). With iOS7, this is not working for messages that are more than 2 days old (at least with iPhone 4S)

Step by step, how did you arrive at seeing this agreement?

Enable wiki searches for 3 characters

I've edited a wiki entry on "installing a arch to a usb key". The main two words here are "usb" and "key". However, mediawiki doesn't allow you to search using three characters. So my edited article is lost to all those searching. I know you can look at the categories section, but it'd be nicer if it was fixed by someone with admit access to the wiki.
I've found this work around: http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2018 Would anyone be willing to implement it?

hm.. yeah this would be a good idea.. most forums and wikis have this restriction -- it's kind of annoying when you want to search for something like say "dsl"

Option to search "entire message" is greyed out

When performing a search in mail, the option to search the entire message is greyed out. Searching from, to and subject all work fine.
Any ideas?

You can try using Rebuild on the Inbox, but I think I would remove the account, then add it back, and wait until Mail rebuilds its cache of messages kept for Offline viewing. Then test again.
Ernie

No "Entire Message"-results, though Spotlight does work

Hello everybody,
I encounter problems with the search-function of mail.app, because searching the entire messages results in a blank page. I searched through these discussion-groups before and finally got Spotlight to finding my messages again, using the re-indexing-function. But Mail does not to take notice of that. Again, no results! Searching for title, recipient etc works like a charm.
Seems like Mail and Spotlight are not working together anymore.
Please help me as it is really awkward not to be able to search within Mail, but having to take the detour with spotlight.
Hauke

I even disabled all plugins (though I did not install any)
and then enabled them again
What do you mean?
Is there maybe a program that should run and that doesn't on my mac?
Actually, what I was looking for is the opposite, i.e. some piece of software you could have installed that could be interfering with Mail.
BTW, the actual list of processes running on your system is larger than you posted. You can see the full list choosing All Processes instead of My Processes in Activity Monitor (don’t post it).
Try this to determine the scope of the problem:
1. Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Accounts, and create a new user account for testing purposes.
2. Either log out of your main user account or just quit Mail so that it does not interfere with the other user account.
3. Log in as the newly created user and set up Mail anew there.
4. If this is a POP account, go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced and disable Remove copy from server after retrieving a message if it’s enabled.
5. Check whether the problem also happens when logged in as another user.
If the problem is system-wide, another thing to try would be reinstalling the Combo Update for the type of computer and the version of Mac OS X you’re using, unless this is the version of Mac OS X that came with your computer:
About the Mac OS X 10.4.8 Combo Update
Mac OS X 10.4.8 Combo Update for PPC
Mac OS X 10.4.8 Combo Update for Intel
Take a look at the following articles for guidelines on how to properly install system updates:
Troubleshooting installation and software updates
Installing software updates
Basically, you should verify/repair the startup disk before installing the update, no applications should be running while installing it, and you may experience unexpected results if you have third-party system software modifications (not normal applications) installed.

Strange 'Entire Message' search problems on cloned external drive only

Hello,
I'm having some strange problems with the 'Entire Message' spotlight style search function in Mail.
There are various threads on the forums about a similar problem, as can be found here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9450686#9450686
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7286254
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7540966
However, here's the twist – it works perfectly fine on my computer, a late 2006 MBP with Tiger, but the 'Entire Message' search ONLY doesn't work when booting from the external hard drive, which is an EXACT clone using smart copy with super duper. Everything else works fine!
To give an example, when I type in a client's second name in Mail on my computer's HD, with 'Entire Message' enabled 400+ emails appear, when I type it in when booting from the external HD clone there was around 10 emails on the first attempt (whilst Mail was open at the same time) and there were 0 on my second clone attempt, whilst Mail and all other applications were closed. Enabling 'From' and 'To' works fine, just not the 'Entire Message' search.
I really need this critical function to work, as I'm about to loose my old computer and use it on a daily bases.
So any ideas anyone?
TIA
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...
There's an interesting thread there:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1366101
down at the bottom there's this post by the bryceman, that sums it all up for people that don't want to fiddle around with the Terminal:
+"Thanks Julien, that Launch Services put me in the right direction too and now my Leopard Mail Entire Message Search is FIXED!!!+
+My Original Post is here:+
+http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7462907#7462907+
+Posted by: DaveC+
+This is a known issue. Check out:+
+http://www.betalogue.com/2008/02/25/mac-os-x-105-tip-repairing-broken-spotlight- searches-in-mail/+
+http://www.betalogue.com/2008/03/28/mac-os-x-105-broken-spotlight-indexing-for-m ail-messages-caused-by-presence-of-older-mail-application/+
+Thanks Dave. I went to Betalogue and went through all the posts and I finally found a way to fix the Search Entire Message Spotlight problem in Apple Mail - at least it worked for me. I have been trying to fix this with all sorts of solutions for months and it turns out it was related to a problem with the Launch Services Database. I confirmed this by looking inside my user/library/mail folder and seeing that inside each Mailbox folder, the sub mailboxes all had standard folder icons and not the inbox tray style icons.+
+Note that you can easily fix this through Terminal Commands, and not all the following steps are completely necessary, but there are many people looking at these threads that want to just push buttons...+
+== So here are my simple steps to fixing Apple Mail Search ==+
+1. Attach and turn on any external hard drives you have that may have a copy of Mail.app on them+
+2. Delete all OLD copies of Mail.app that you can find (don't worry about Time Machine), but make sure you keep the latest version of Mail.app in your working Applications folder.+
+~ This is so that the LaunchServices database won't easily become corrupt again+
+3. Install the latest version of Onyx - free to use and download from www.macupdate.com+
+~ I suggest Onyx, because some people don't want to mess with the Terminal.+
+4. Quit all open applications and run Onyx (it will want to check your Hard Drive etc...that's OK).+
+5. Go to the Maintenance pane and then the Rebuild tab and select only the LaunchServices box. Click Execute.+
+~ This should fix the primary problem with searches+
+6. When that process finishes, select only the Mail's Envelope Index box. Click Execute.+
+~ This should fix related problems with other searches+
+7. When that process finishes, select only the Spotlight Index box. Click Execute. (This process of Rebuilding your Spotlight Index could take hours depending on how big your hard drive is).+
+~ This will give you a clean fast Spotlight database that Mail uses for Entire Message searches.+
+8. Quit Onyx+
+9. Open Mail.app and test your Entire Message Search!+
====
+Hope that helps - it certainly, finally, did for me!+
Bryce."
If I was to do this myself, using Onyx that I've downloaded, and as described above, should I do it from the internal on to the clone? The trouble is I have 1 and a half days left with this computer and I need to use the 'Entire Message' search with mail practically that whole time as I'm totaling a large invoice for a client whilst looking at hundreds emails related to them, this is a nightmare.
Can you recommend me a cloud service that will let me download on to my emergency computer that's an old G4 Powermac with Panther? A tried ADrive and kept on getting the 302 error cod, and tried DriveHQ but it tells me to 'insert the volume related to the file' ............ these seem to work fine when downloading to my intel MBP though ....
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Mail no longer does Entire Message search

I am no longer able to get Mail to do an "Entire Message" search. When I type a word in the Search box, the 'Entire Message' button appears "grayed out", and the only options available with All Mailboxes are From, To, and Subject. I did a Rebuild, I checked the settings in Preferences for searching Trash, Junk, Encrypted Messages (not that those should matter), I'm using a POP server, etc This seems to have just started since the 10.5.7 update. (help! thanks <Edited by Host>)

bbbbobbb,
Quit Mail, open System Preferences>Spotlight>Privacy, and add your Macintosh HD to the list. Wait a couple of minutes, and then remove your Macintosh HD from the Privacy list. You should notice (after a short delay) that Spotlight is reindexing your HD. After Spotlight completes the index, open Mail and see if your search works.
;~)

Mail will no longer search "Entire Message". That option is grayed out. Why?

How do I get Mail to search "Entire Message". That option suddenly is grayed out.

A SMTP is a server for sending messages, and not as an Incoming server. Do you mean an IMAP server?
I did not mean it was for a single message, but the fact that you had a single message in local storage turned the option on, but it could only have search the messages that were in local storage.
Check again in Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced what is selected regarding Keep copies of Messages?
Ernie

Search entire message not working in Mail, but Spotlight works.

I am having a problem where my mail App is not searching the entire body of the message any more. I installed Lion soon after it was released, and I believe that it has been working up until recently.
If I do a search, it won't search the message body, and gives me no option to search for "Message contains" (just "People" and "Subjects"). If search for subject "foo" and then click on the "Subject" pull down menu, it shows "Subject" and "Entire Message", but "Entire Message" is greyed out.
I've done a lot of web searching and most people with similar problems had problems with Spotlight.
If I do a Spotlight search, it does find all of the mail messages correctly. Its just the Mail app that won't let me search.
I haven't tried re-indexing spotlight yet because spotlight seems to be working okay.
Note that all of my mail accounts are "POP" accounts with the mail stored locally on my machine.
Has anyone else encountered this?
Thanks,
Ron

I should have tried this before posting, but a reboot fixed my problem.

"search entire message" button in mail is sometimes grayed out

Hi, Recently I've noticed that sometimes when I do a search in mail the button to search entire message is grayed out and unclickable. This started happening in the last few days. Just a minute ago I tried to do a search and the button was gray, then I went to Safari and logged into Apple support, went back to mail and typed a new search, and all of sudden the button is clickable again. Any ideas? Running 10.6.7 on a 15" Macbook Pro. Thanks...

Ernie,
I collected the info you require - see below. Along the way I deduced that the problem may be a corrupted Spotlight index. As you'll see below attempting to remove Library or Mail from the index failed. I am currently rebuilding the entire volume index...
Repair permissions - log shows no fixes. Search still fails...
POP-<email> varies from 14.7MB down to 120kb.
Typically the root level of POP-<email> is
Deleted Messages.mbox
Sent Messages.mbox
Drafts.mbox
INBOX.mbox
Junk.mbox
Some account also have "MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2"
The root level of INBOX.mbox is typically:
Info.plist [not always]
Messages
POP-steve%[email protected]
has top level
Deleted Messages.mbox
Drafts.mbox
INBOX.mbox
Junk.mbox
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2
Sent Messages.mbox
with INBOX.mbox top level of
content_index
Info.plist
mbox
mbox.SKindex
mbox.SKindex.isValid
Messages
tableofcontents
I deleted the out of date indexes, etc.
Spotlight prefs, Privacy, add ~/Library/Mail
"Privacy List Error
The item couldn't be added or removed because of an unknown error."
Same Mail operation worked on MBP -- also on MBP Library folder.
Try MacPro Library - same error.
Delete entire MacPro index. More to follow on whether this is the fix...

Mail search won't search Entire Message

When I type anything into the search bar in mail, and have it select to search Entire Message, it won't find anything. Even if I only type 2 characters, it won't find it.
In the SpotLight System Preference, I tried adding the whole drive to the privacy pane and then removing it.

I had this problem too - I can't believe that now at 10.5.8, Apple STILL haven't sorted this out.
I have eventually managed to get search back again (don't want to speak too soon though). Among other things, I did mdimport ~/Library/Mail following the advice in http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5934412#5934412. However, I don't know if this actually had any particular effect, as Spotlight seemed to start a new index run after I had done this (which presumably would override the effects of the specific import).
I have tried most things mentioned - rebuild mailbox, delete Envelope Index after quitting Mail, all sorts of variants of turning Spotlight or different volumes to be indexed or not on or off.
I have not tried (because I don't think they are likely to have any effect) deleting the preferences, switching off and on again, resetting PRAM etc.
I have tried searching for duplicate Mail copies, and searching for .metadataneverindex and disk utility checking permissions on the volumes and manually on the mail folders, and checking by looking that the mail folders are not packages, but come on, I don't think any of these are likely.
Personally, I think it was the virgin sacrifice that fixed it.

Spotlight / search entire message stopped working!?

Hi, whenever I type anything into the search bar, and I have 'entire message' selected, it ALWAYS returns 0 results.
Even when it blatantly should.
Any ideas folks?
thanks in advance
Gwyn
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Telling Spotlight to re-index the disk might have solved your problem:
Re: Search Entire Message Not Working After Fresh OS Install
Deleting anything shouldn't have to be necessary. If it "fixed" your problem it could be just because that caused Spotlight to update the index accordingly.
What is weird about the other thread Ernie was referring to is that Mail couldn't find messages that Spotlight could, which I still don't know whether was also your case or not. I troubleshooted a similar case a few weeks ago, which I believe was caused by permissions issues. Unfortunately, the OP didn't provide feedback as to whether what I suggested there fixed anything or not:
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thanks...

So today, for no particular reason, I attempted to perform a search using the Entire Message option, which—for as long as I can remember—produced no results. Now, it simply works.
While I haven't tested it is some time, and have applied both the Mac OS X 10.4.5 Update weeks ago and a Security Update early last week, I have made no other changes to my configuration. Suddenly, it works: and, for no apparent reason. Wish I could tell you just what I might have done to 'fix' this…

HT201285 Why can i not see the entire Message in my spotlight search? when i click on it

I am about to SCREAM!!! How do you read the entire search result in spolight? Please someone help me!! I am not good with this phone. Would it make a difference if the message had been deletedfrom the conversation? HELP

It's not clear just what you're asking.
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Search 'Entire Message' in Mail on network account.

Hello -
Recently an issue has come up where my users are unable to choose the "Entire Message" option when performing a search in Mail. "From", "To" and "Subject" all work fine.
All of my users are running latest updates of 10.6 and 10.7 and all are on network accounts. This is not a new problem, but it's a new question that came up a few months ago and I've been scraping for an answer since then.
-I understand that for the "From, To and Subject" search options, Mail handles them separately in the Envelope Index file.
-Spotlight is responsible for the Entire Message option.
-I had to force spot light to index the user folder through terminal using mdutil and specifying "~/". The user folders are not on local storage so Spotlight ignores them.
After forcing mdutil to index - a spotlight search will return results as I would expect - searching entire message but, Mail still does not allow for the Entire Message search option.
Please let me know if more information would help. Thank you in advance.

Maybe I just needed to talk it out, but I think I've sorted it out on my own.
I went to the Account Prefs > Offending Mailbox and under the heading:
"Keep copies of messages offline for viewing" from "Dont Keep Any..." to "All..."
Then I went to Mailbox>Rebuild in the menubar and Bang!
Results!
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