Mail won't search folders on my mac

Hi everyone,
I am running Mac Mail 5.1 and when I do a search in the toolbar for anything, it only searches the folders on my server (so the inbox, sent, etc) and nothing under the 'ON MY MAC' heading.
Does anyone else know why this may be happening and how I can resolve it?
Thanks

Hi Simon
When you search in the (mail.app) after you type there is small search toolbar  click in any file you want to search on it or click all to search on all files.see the toolbar below
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