Search for subject in Mail is case sensitive

I'm hoping this is the right place to ask questions about Apple Mail as the organisation of this forum is mind baffling.
Am I right in thinking that a search on the subject in Apple Mail is case sensitive. If so, how do I change this behaviour ?

HD wrote:
Hi and welcome to Apple Discussions.
I agree it's silly that there doesn't appear to be a separate topic heading for questions about Mail. I think perhaps they want you to post under the version of the system software you're using. But what do I know?
As far as I can see, subject searches in Mail (at least under Yosemite) are not case sensitive. I searched for "your" (all lower case) in the subject and found, among others:
Searching for "Your" (upper case "Y") finds exactly the same messages.
Hope this helps,
H
Strange this, because that's what I thought, having used Apple Mail for years. Tried it again and you are right, it is not case sensitive, but earlier today I did a search that definitely returned a different set of results when I changed the word "hours" to "Hours". I wonder if somehow I inadvertently triggered a case sensitive option.

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