You must configure evolution to download the message content for offline viewing, otherwise beagle cannot access it. There has been discussion of changing this behavior upstream. (ie. allowing beagle to remotely access the IMAP server to get the message content) but at the moment, we have decided against it.
http://beagle-project.org/Indexing_Data on how to configure evolution. ** Changed in: beagle (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- Dapper's beagle does not index/search IMAP mail contents from Evolution https://launchpad.net/bugs/43938 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
