10.4 Reproducible  Mail bug

After I imported my mail from 10.3, all my mailboxes were placed inside a folder called "Import". There is a bug that causes all mail messages to be lost in sub-mailboxes if I move any mailbox out of the "Import" mailbox.
Specifically: If I have a mailbox "Phil" inside "Import/People", then move the "People" mailbox to the top level, the content of all mails in the "Phil" mailbox is replaced with:
"The message [...] has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it."
Further, if I rebuild this mailbox, the mails disappear entirely. However, if I (without rebuilding the mailbox), move the "People" mailbox back to its original location, then all the "Phil" mails re-appear.
I find that it is OK to move any mailbox which doesn't have sub-mailboxes (ie. moving "Phil" to the top level works fine), but the errors occurs reproducibly when I try to move any mailbox that contains other mailboxes.
The work-around (for me) was to create a new mailbox structure then move all bottom-level mailboxes into this structure.
Is this a known bug in Mail Version 2.1 (752/752.2)? I did a quick search on here and didn't find a mention of it. But I'm sure I can't be the only one who has experienced this bug.
- Phil

Another update:
The missing mail was still indexed by the search engine, although all emails were replaced with the "has not been downloaded" message.
So I went searching in the ~/Library/Mail folder to see where the mail could have gone. It was all still there, but had been moved to a folder called "Local-(null)@(null)". Very odd. I moved all the contained mailboxes back to the "Mailboxes" folder and now I can see them again!
And the search engine can now find the mails too.
Does anyone know why the mailboxes got moved to "Local-(null)@(null)"? I'll let you know if it happens again.
- Phil

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