How do i search for an old email in time machine

I have tried using spotlight as the online help suggest and launching time machine but nothing seems to happen after time machine opens.
Am I being impatient?
Can it be done from mail?
Also how do you stop Time Machine backing up emails; which folder do you choose in TM preferences?
Thanks

Matthew Valentine wrote:
I have tried using spotlight as the online help suggest and launching time machine but nothing seems to happen after time machine opens.
Try the things in #E4 of [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Can it be done from mail?
Apparently not - the search box in the Mail window isn't active in the "Star Wars" display (at least not for me).
Also how do you stop Time Machine backing up emails; which folder do you choose in TM preferences?
<home folder>/Library/Mail

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If you are having issues searching for specific email messages on your iPhone, you may find the following articles helpful:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3636
iPhone User Guide For iOS 7.1 Software
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
(pg. 50 for Mail options)
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Hi,
I have a problem with searching for E-mails in Time Machine.
When I search for E-mails of a specific address or subject in Mail and can't find it, I enter Time Machine and in Time Machine the "search field" of the mail window is empty and all E-mails are shown.
I found no way to filter the E-mails and it's difficult to find an E-mail when all E-mails are listed.
I also can't use a intelligent folder with my search criteria, cause they are greyed out in Time Machine.
Is this a "normal" behaviour or am I doing something wrong?

Alex69 wrote:
Thanks for the answer…
I thought maybe I'm doing something wrong or this is because i excluded the Time Machine volume from spotlight, but ok, not my fault, but an apple "feature"
I could search for specific E-mails using a finder search and then switch into Time Machine, but since Mail is called a Time-Machine-Aware Application I felt there should be a direct way to do this in Mail…
Yes, there "should be a direct way to do this."
The approach you describe above will work for email that still currently resides on your Mac, for example an email that has been "Replied" back and forth and you wish to retrieve an earlier version of the conversation. Or perhaps a "Draft" email that has undergone changes over time, of which you need to retrieve an earlier version. In these cases using Time Machine is relatively straight forward.
My problem with Mail/Time Machine is with a specific email that has since been deleted. Unless you know exactly what mailbox that email had been in, and at what time the email had existed, then it can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. In this case the Time Machine interface needs to have a search box added to the "time travel" windows for faster retrieval of specific items, the location of which the user doesn't remember.
I'm convinced, though, that the usability of Time Machine in such instances will improve over time. Particularly as more app become integrated with it.
Glenn

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