> My set up is kmail/ Maildir.  AFAIK attachments are kept with the mail in
> Kmail, instead of  separately. But when I use my normal search tools --
> grep, Konqueror Tools, I can not find known strings.
>

That's because word documents are binary data.  

You could try using strings on each file, and piping the ouput through grep.

for f in `tree -if`; do echo $f; strings $f | grep whatIAmLookingFor; done;

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