Mail seems to be inadequate?

Hello folks and happy new year.
I'm a long-time Eudora user. Suddenly I discover something I need that Eudora can't do so I wondered if it's time to switch to Mail. But, on even a superficial examination, Mail appears to be way short of a professional standard. Just one example — Apple calls Mail's "search" feature powerful but, to me, it seems pathetically-weak.
As far as the Mac is concerned, Eudora is almost dead. Sooner or later, an OS update will break it so that's another reason I've been thinking of this issue off and on.
But I worry that there really is nothing out there ready to take over from Eudora, which has served me wonderfully for years, with my multiple email accounts and huge numbers of filters and mailboxes.
MailForge and MailSmith receive poor reviews and, anyway, freeware or shareware isn't what I'm looking for. I'm happy to pay for a stable, professional, fully-featured application. But...is there such a thing in the email-for-Mac universe? Funny how Mac users are well-served in many fields but email is one area where offerings are poor or, in some other areas I'm concerned about, non-existant altogether. (A professional-grade usenet client is another thing I've never been able to find. Thoth ***** but it's the best there is.)
(And, for those interested, what can't Eudora do that I wanted to do? Send in cyrillic. It can receive cyrillic ok but their web site admits that it can't send. Strange.)
Can anyone point me please?

Sorry, that was just one example - I managed to find those emails via alternate methods. Too often I'd like to do a more sophisticated search than mail seems to support. For example, when you don't know how something is spelled but you know part of the word or you are searching for, or looking for a phrase but not sure of the tense or plurals.
The question remains how to do an advanced search or even simple loose pattern matching.
Mail continues to fall very short of Eudora (except that it doesn't crash and does display html emails). How about just being able to see more than one mailbox at a time? Or multiple search results at one time. How about the ability to label emails? I really miss Eudora's simple option-click to quickly gather emails based on any mailbox field. I really miss Eudora's ability to reply to more than one email in a single response. And, I sorely miss Eudora's ability to re-title and even edit existing emails.
...and it appears I'm not alone.

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