Spotlight Search + Yahoo Mail

I thought I read somewhere you could search emails not stored on your phone via Spotlight. I'm using Yahoo through the mail app and searching the servers with Spotlight, but getting no results returned. Does anyone have a solution/thoughts?
--Chris

Aha! I think I found the answer on this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6916612&#6916612
I excluded my hard drive from the Spotlight search preferences and de-selected all the optional areas where it will search. Then I renamed my hard drive without any spaces (just "MacHD"). Then I went back into Spotlight preferences, included the newly named drive, and re-selected all the options. Spotlight re-indexed, and all my mail messages appeared in searches.

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