Mail will not search

Regardless of what I type in mail search it returns nothing. Its like it is turned off or something. This is a brand new Mac Pro.
I did do a migration from my older computer but it was running the latest OS. Also, it did not suffer from this search problem.
I have seen many many posts about this issue. But very few resolutions expect for a scary command line to enable Searchlight. When I tried to issue this command I was asked for my password and was warned this could cause serious damage to system files! Needless to say I did not proceed.
Is there a fix for this that does not require major surgery?
Desperate!

Reindexed. Mail still refuses to search....anything. I type in a word I know exists and mail just says this...
or it says nothing and just ignores whatever I type.

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