Spotlight and mail notes

Hi all.
Is there a way of getting spotlight to index the notes within Mail? I've got lots of notes, with lots of info, but spotlight doesn't seem to index them, or at least report any results from them. My iPhone spotlight reports them, but not my Mac. Any ideas?
Thanks,
John

Notes show up for me in Spotlight under Messages...
Try a repair disk on Macintosh HD.
Next, try adding Macintosh HD to Spotlight's exceptions list. I'd log out/in, and then remove it. Wait for Spotlight to re-index the drive.
If that doesn't work, then try the commands here that V.K. and baltwo have posted. See if those help. Basically, you're going to wipe your Spotlight index and have it re-index the drive.

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