Spotlight privacy items showing up in Mail spotlight search

Question

I've got a Spam folder in Mail whos mbox i've put into Spotlight's privacy settings. When I do a search for one of the spam mails in the main Mac OS spotlight search, the results don't come up, which is good. But when I search in Mail's spotlight using the same criteria, results show up which means to me that Mail is ignoring Spotlight's privacy settings.
Anyone else have this problem or know of a fix for it?

Answer 1

ok, this shows that the spotlight comment "the Kat" is retained in spotlight database as it's recorded in the kMDItemFinderComment field. then the problem is likely corruption of the .DS_store files for the folders containing those files. I really don't know why this happens and what's the proper way of dealing with this but I made the following workaround for the same problem while helping someone else in the past
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10549447
paste the following into AppleScript Editor
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "Finder"
set mlist to selection
set curfolder to item 1 of mlist
repeat with this_item in entire contents of curfolder
set ppath to quoted form of POSIX path of (this_item as alias)
set comment of this_item to (do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemFinderComment " & ppath & "| awk -F\\\"  '{print $2}'") 
end repeat
end tell</pre>
select the folder containing all those items (they can be in subfolders) and press 'run" in applescript editor.
Message was edited by: V.K.