Mail behaves strangely in Mavericks

After installing Mavericks my mail app has lost mails stored in folders. Only the sidebar shows titles. Rest of the mail is blank! Can someone help?
The group addresses typed in address bar do not work either.
And the whole system is taking too long. Reminds me of WinXP.

Thanks for the response. Actually, I had tried it and it was of no help. I finally cracked the problem by restoring mailboxes from my backup and deleting the existing ones from the mail folder in Library>…
The Contacts app too was corrected by deleting all groups and creating fresh ones!
Took time but problem was corrected (manually and no thanks to 10.9).
Take home from this experience - not to jump onto new OS avataars henceforth till the first and second updates are put up by Apple.
BTW the system continues to be sluggish and going the Windows way. Right now I am trying to beat a way around too many pop-ups from Mail asking for my password confirmation…

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