MacMail crashes every time I search

Question

There seem to be some other solutions to mail problems on ML, but does anyone have one for this? Mail works fine except for search. 10.8.1 is no help.
The crash log gives me the following:
Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Fatal error.  The database at /Users/mba/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr is corrupted.  SQLite error code:11, 'database disk image is malformed''
abort() called
terminate called throwing an exception
Does anyone know if I can just delete that corrupted file?

Answer 1

Back up all data if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to the state it’s in now.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Triple-click the line below to select it, then drag or copy into the Terminal window — do not type — and press return:
ls -Odel Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot.