Mail search bar doesn't work

The title tells it all: the Search feature in Mail doesn't work. I can see dozens of messages to a various people, but the Search feature doesn't find any of them. How can I fix this?

captfred wrote:
Niku,
Highlight the mailbox you want to search on the left, or Inbox for all accounts. Enter a search criteria in the mail search window. At that point a small criteria bar opens just above the column titles and below the toolbar. It's easy to miss. This gives you more granular control of the search, such as "Entire Message, From, To, Subject etc." also "all mailboxes or Inbox".
If the search still fails, see if Spotlight will find the email. If not, than there is an indexing problem.
Whoops! I just noticed that I did something wrong, so before I proceed, I want to get your thoughts. What happened is that while using your advanced search method, I created six "Smart" Mailboxes. I don't know anything about "Smart" mailboxes, but before I delete them, I want to be sure that I won't forever lose all the messages now contained in them. In other words, how do I delete the "Smart" mailboxes while keeping all of the messages that are now in them?

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