If you’re using Leopard or Snow Leopard on your Mac (prior to Lion’s implementation of tokens) and you’ve ever needed a way to search for a couple of terms in Mail, here’s how.
You’ll want to use keywords. For example, if you and your friend, Seth, were talking about Google calendars on a couple of occasions and you wanted to find your emails from Seth with the search term Google in the message body, you’d want to use the keyword author and then search for Google. In your search bar you’d do that like this: 
You can also do more complex searches and you can use the same technique with Spotlight. Here’s a more complete list of keywords:
Keywords for Searching
| To Search for: | Use: |
| Aliases | kind:alias |
| Applications | kind:application, kind:applications, kind:app |
| Audio | kind:audio |
| Bookmarks | kind:bookmark, kind:bookmarks |
| Browser history | kind:history |
| Contacts | kind:contact, kind:contacts |
| E-mail messages | kind:email, kind:emails, kind:mail message |
| Folders | kind:folder, kind:folders, kind:fol |
| Fonts | kind:font, kind:fonts |
| iCal Events | kind:event, kind:events |
| iCal To-Do Items | kind:todo, kind:todos, kind:to do |
| Images | kind:image, kind:images |
| JPEG files | kind:jpeg |
| Keynote files | kind:keynote |
| Movies | kind:movie, kind:movies |
| MP3 files | kind:mp3 |
| Music | kind:music |
| Numbers documents | kind:numbers |
| Pages documents | kind:pages |
| PDF files | kind:pdf, kind:pdfs |
| PowerPoint files | kind:powerpoint |
| Preference panes | kind:preference, kind:preferences |
| Presentations | kind:presentation, kind:presentations |
| QuickTime files | kind:quicktime |
| TIFF files | kind:tiff |
| Word documents | kind:word |
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