Mail Search no longer works

I found some boards that show potential solutions to a remedy, and I have tried them without success.
Problem: Mail no longer yields results when searching through primary inbox OR all subsequent mail folders. Neither Full body OR to/from info is displayed when trying to do a search. Just "0 results."
I have disabled and re-enabled Spotlight to try and fix. I have re-indexed my mail folders from the command line, and I have even tried to recreate the mail index without success.
Can anyone help?

Not sure if you resolved this by now, but I was having the same problem and I found that my hard drive was in the privacy section of spotlight within system preferences, preventing the search of my mail and everything else on my hard drive for that mater.. Hope this helps

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