Fixing Mail search?

i have never seemed to have been able to find an email on my iphone using the search feature of Mail (iOS6) and i am wondering if this is something peculiar to my machine or my way of doing this or if this is not something i should expect from the app.
i seem to have very good luck with this in Sparrow but i don't hook all my accounts up to sparrow.
does anyone know if there is a way to get this to work or if there is some issue with my setup?
i am on IMAP accessing mail on iCloud, GMail, and a couple of web based domains.
i would love to solve this as i am not aware of a convenient way to get my email addresses from my desktop or laptop to my iPhone and not having these makes sending email difficult.
TIA

It does sound like a Spotlight indexing problem, has it had time to finish indexing?
In the meantime, it won't be as fast searching for content, but I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076
Here's a direct download link to EasyFind 4.0 which runs in 10.3.9 & up...
http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/legacy/macosx1039/EasyFind.dmg.zip
From this page,
http://www.devon-technologies.com/support/faqs.php?p=default&cat=19
Freeware applications:
    * EasyFind 4.0
    * PhotoStickies 5.6
    * ThumbsUp 4.3
    * XMenu 1.8
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/8707
Use it to search your Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail for case insensitive whatever... once you open that folder in the Finder it should be a choice to limit the search to that folder at the dropdown at the right of EasyFind.

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