Mail search field bug

Help help! (And my english is not super duper. I hope I can explain problem)
My Mail search will only look in the fields 'To', 'Cc' or 'Bcc' when given something to search for.
If I search for a topic or a thing, nothing comes up, and names does not show up if the name is in the 'From' field. It is really frustrating.
Anyone knows anything about this bug? I have made my spotlight reindex itself, that did not help. I am wondering if there are any preferences for the mail search field that I can reset somewhere or what???
Hoping to get help
Hanna

Same problem, very frustrating. Even resorted to a clean install and the problem persists. 10.9.1 (also in 10.9.2 btw).

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