Lion Mail unable to find "excerpts"/"character subsets" of email addresses (worked in 10.6)

Hi,
I recently started using Lion and feel that Mail search has been downgraded. In Snow Leopard, I could search for an "excerpt"/"character subset" of an email address, but this does not work in Lion, and when I called Apple Care about this issue, they confirmed this is proper operation of Lion Mail search and didn't seem to think this was an issue of concern.
For example, I have an account with First Arkansas Bank & Trust. I've received email from FABT from four different email addresses:
First Arkansas Bank and Trust <[email protected]>
FIRST ARKANSAS BANK & TRUST <[email protected]>
First Arkansas Bank and Trust <[email protected]>
Account Services <[email protected]>
In Snow Leopard, I could search for "Arkansas" and limit to "From" field, and all emails from FABT would show up. Now in Lion Mail, when I type "Arkansas" in the search field, Mail automatically searches all of my email content, so I get all my FABT emails but also emails from United Airlines talking about fares to a city in Arkansas and so on. I am then given the option of limiting my search to "First Arkansas Bank and Trust <[email protected]>" or "FIRST ARKANSAS BANK & TRUST <[email protected]>" but not "First Arkansas Bank and Trust <[email protected]>" or "Account Services <[email protected]>." If I do a search for "from:arkansas," I get results for all but "Account Services <[email protected]>." I can only retrieve that email address by searching for "from:aservices" or "from:first" because they appear at the beginning of the email address. Apple Care tech support confirmed that Lion Mail cannot search for an "excerpt"/"character subset" of an email address like "arkansas" in the case of [email protected]. Is it also like this in Mountain Lion? Is there any way to request that Apple improve its search functionality?
Snow Leopard Mail search had no problem searching for subset character strings. e.g. doing a search for "rkans" (including full text search) brings up zero emails in Lion, whereas it worked perfectly fine in Snow Leopard. I'm also not pleased with the loss of the scroll bar arrow buttons in Lion... :/
thanks for any advice you may have

beethovengirl wrote:
Thanks for your reply! To what extent does Apple listen to such feedback?
I am sure they will read it, but it's impossible to know whether they will take action. I would guess that having a large number of people ask for something increases the chances.
For questions relating to how Mountain Lion behaves you should ask in its forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mountain_lion

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