Searching iCloud mail issue-attachments get lost

When using the browser based icloud mail, I search for an email that's in my inbox somewhere.  It will find the most recent mail in that conversation and show previous emails in that conversation in the body of that message.  It won't however contain any attachments sent with those previous linked messages, just the attachment name. Nor will the search bring up the orginal email that did contain the attachment. However if I manually scroll through my inbox though I can find the previous emails with the attachments, it just doesn't show in the search. Any ideas

A related issue, more serious in a way-I've had 6 emails from a contact today & some yesterday, none of which show up in a search when using his name, the latest to show up being emails he sent me on Dec 30 2012.  Am I missing something with the search feature? Thanks

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