How can i reindex my mail accounts (imap)?

i've noticed that i can't seem to search my mails anymore.
or just a subset from what's in the accounts.
how i can force mail.app to reindex my imap accounts?

yeah i noticed the edit and did what the page said.
while it did s.th. that took its sweet time my gmail account seems to be properly reindexed. but my other imap account still refuses to get indexed properly.
i have the feeling mail.app has problems with accounts that run on courier-imapd.
every now and then mail.app offers to change the prefix in order to use the task and notes feature but when i say yes the account ceases to work at all unless i remove that prefix again. just to have mail ask me to change it a bit later :S
but that's a different problem. need to find the time and install a different imap server.
so thanks alot for your help!

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