Can't see message contents in "sent" mail folder

I had to rebuild my Apple Mail system two weeks ago. Now, if I need to look at a "sent" message from a point further back than two weeks ago, I can see the message entry, the subject, the addressee, but not the actual content of the message. I followed some advice elsewhere in this forum, but I think it made matters worse-I found two "sent" folders, under two different incoming mail identities, both mine, in my home Library Mail folder; I combined them, by physically dragging the contents from one to the other. Didn't work. Now I can't access any sent mail-I get the front details, but no contents. So now, if I have to, I can visit my Home folder Library to dig up old sent mail(it's all there), but I can't see anything from the Mail application. Any advice?

No, my question still hasn't been answered, but I can add information. As it is now, if I open my "sent" mail folder, I can see a list of emails, with subjects, date sent, etc., but if I click on one of them, if the email is older than a certain date I won't see a message. The lower, message, window is blank.
The new information is this: when I posted my original question, above, on Nov. 9, the blank-message problem wasn't an issue for messages sent in the preceding week; only for messages sent before that. Now, on Nov. 13, I can read messages back to Nov. 9, but not before that. The problem is advancing a day at a time. I can only read messages sent within the last four or five days; not before.

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