You didn't do something silly like enter MailDisk in the Privacy area in the 
Spotlight preference, did you?

On Apr 17, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Nathan Sims wrote:

> I seem to have spoken too soon. I forgot that my email is on an external 
> drive. 
> When I try various mdutil commands, I get:
> 
> $ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/MailDisk/
> /Volumes/MailDisk:
>       No index.
> 
> $ sudo mdutil -E -i on /Volumes/MailDisk/
> /Volumes/MailDisk:
> Error: unable to perform operation.  (-107)
>       No index.
> 
> So I am at a loss to know how to force Spotlight to create an index for the 
> volume.
> 
> -Nate
> 
> 
> On Apr 17, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Tom M. Blenko wrote:
> 
>> 
>> This has happened to me multiple times. You probably need to reindex the 
>> partition containing your mail for Spotlight. mdutil(1).
>> 
>>      Tom
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Nathan Sims wrote:
>> 
>>> Without warning, my 10.6.8 iMac now refuses to allow me to spotlight search 
>>> email (within Mail.app) by "Entire Message" -- it's dimmed out. I can only 
>>> choose "From", "To", or "Subject".
>>> 
>>> What needs to be reset to get this capability back?
>>> 
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