Cannot search/interrogate Mail list

Had half this problem with Mavericks.
Now both searching received mail as well as sent mail is not working as it use to.
I keep my list of emails chronological (by date). (I do not use conversations.)
I use to be able to highlight a person in my list and would find all their emails by clicking 'from' or 'to'.
Now that action will take me to the end or the beginning of those lists in alphabetical order. With thousands of email over 5 or more years that makes it a pain to scroll to the email selection I wanted.
In Mavericks the 'to' list in the sent emails was playing up, now in Yosemite both the 'from' in the received emails and the 'to' in the sent list are not 'working'.
Sorry if there was a more tech savvy way of describing this problem.

Every so often, when the problem recurs, I can get it back to normal just shutting down both iCal and Mail, and then starting up Mail. I think it must have something to do with the way task-data is synced between Mail and iCal.

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