Search not working in mail

When I do the usual search in my apple mail, desktop version, I get no results.
In other words: Search for John Smith in ALL, nothing
Search for [email protected] in ALL nothing
Any suggestions how to fix this?

Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
ls ~/Library/Mail/V2/*/*/.dontIndex | grep -v Deleted
Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot.
Your email address(es) may appear in the output, so anonymize before posting.

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