Mail showing very old messages in inbox

When I do a search on someone's name for whom I have received an email, I often get other emails with that same name (but a different person) that are from 2005!when I click on the email, there is nothing showing in the preview and there's nothing when I click on 'Show in mailbox' either. Any ideas where these very old messages are stored???

I see the choice in Mailboxes. I just tried it and unfortunately it wiped out all my 'trash' contents. I typically keep trash for 6 months out in case I need to refer to thing that inadvertently found there way there instead of a folder. Darn. I hadn't realized it would wipe out the ones in the trash folder. Yeah, I know they were 'deleted' from the inbox, and others, etc. but I still considered them safe until I deleted them physically from the trash mailboxes. My error but I can recover them from Time Machine. And ironically, the emails from 2005 are still showing up when I do a find on say, the name "kate". Oh well. still unresolved at this point. thanks for trying though.

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