Spotlight Searches POP Mail Attachments

I started using POP to fetch my Gmail. Now Spotlight is indexing all message attachments and showing results from them (which I do not want). If I add the Mail folder to the list of locations not to be indexed by Spotlight, messages in Mail become unsearchable.
How do I stop Spotlight from showing results from my mail attachments without altogether stopping search within Mail? (I do not have Mail and Chat checked in Spotlight preferences)
Thanks

Hello I have the same problem and I don't think this behavior happened in Lion or Snow Leopard (at least for me). Although the Spotlight "Search Results" pane in my preferences excludes "Messages and Chats", every spotlight search from the finder windows also includes result from every attachment in every mail message. As a result, spotlight searches are barely useable. I found no solution. However, it looks like it was an old bug (since 2007 at least: see https://discussions.apple.com/message/5916605#5916605). Bug or bad decision -- the limit is hard to set between the two -- that reappeared in Mountain Lion.
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