I discovered that rather confusing dupe in Finder 10.5 while making several catch-all smart folders that included e mail messages that matched a assured criteria. It turns out that there are two attributes labeled Email addresses in Finder’s metadata attributes list (visible when you choose Other from the Kind pop-up in the Finder search window):

• Email addresses: newsletter addresses associated with that item
• Email addresses: mail addresses

The unmistaken

attribute to use whether one is looking for emails sent by a convinced e mail address is the second one in the list above; the one with the lame description. The other (less useful) Email addresses attribute appears to only return Address Book vCards, as you can see in this screenshot.

Note that the Spotlight items metadat…

Original post by Michael Rose