Pre-Leopard Mail unsearchable

I did an Erase & Install for Leopard and just moved over my Mail folder (as well as prefs, etc).
I can use Mail just fine but any emails prior to yesterday do not come up in when I search.
I assume I need to force re-index something, but just not sure what/how.

I actually did. Seems you have to "Rebuild" each and ever mailbox including folders.
Just selection the mailbox or folder you'd like and then go to Mailbox > Rebuild. That should do the trick.

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