Cannot Edit Smart Mailbox?

Although I've been using macs since Performa 600 days, I have never used a smart mailbox. Now, I have a need. I created a smart mailbox but when I follow the instructions for editing it to task it to retrieve mail from a particular sender, I click on the mailbox and then go to the Mailbox menu, but the Edit Smart Mailbox is grayed out. It also did not offer me any opportunity to create any setting when I created the Smart Mailbox.
Why would that be?

It also did not offer me any opportunity to create any setting when I created the Smart Mailbox.
How did you create it?

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