I am having problems with the Mail search engine.

Here is what is happening. When I attempt to search my Mac Mail sent folders using the Mac Mail's search function, the message window simply goes blank after I enter the second letter into the space next to the magnifying glass icon. This only happens when I try to search my sent folders. It will still search my received mail folders just fine.
I have tried rebuilding the Spotlight index, and also rebuilding the Mac Mail database. Neither worked.
I have read some suggestions that one use Terminal with a command such as sudo hdutil -i on "/Volumes/Macintosh HD.
Although I am loathe to type anything into Terminal, I tried to enter this command, then it asks me for my administrator password, and then refuses to allow me to enter it, so that is an entirely new problem that I would have to figure out.
I am using OS 10.6.8 on a MacBook Pro.
What if I just reinstall Mac Mail? Would that work?
Thanks for your help.

Spam filters work in different ways on different computers and different email providers, so why one message does go to the Spam/Bulk mailbox, and why it doesn't all depends on the Spam filtering criteria that that provider or product set up.
Any messages you want that appear in the Bulk Mailbox, you would be best off learning how to train the software or the email provider that it's good mail and not spam.  Once you do that, the emails that you've been flagging as good emails will begin to come back into your normal email boxes.
If you still need more help with this, please provide:
1) The email software you're using on your computer, and the system software on your computer -- example: Outlook 2010 and Windows 7
2) The email provider you're having trouble with -- example: yahoo mail, a work exchange email account

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