Searching Emails after transferring to new MacBook

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro and transferred my Home folder from my old PowerBook to the MacBook using the Setup utility that launched when I first powered up the MacBook. When I search for archived email I've sent in my Sent folder, Mail only finds the emails I sent from the new MacBook. The emails I sent from the old PowerBook do not come up when using the Search feature at the top fo the Sent window. The emails are there and can be seen in the list of emails but Search will not find them. I'm guessing the Mail app. on the new MacBook needs to index the files that came over from the PowerBook. Is there a way to force Mail to index all email files contained therein so that Search will see them?

JCC,
The mbox in the old account is evidence of leftover files, so you should also check the mailboxes in that account folder, such as Sent Messages.mbox, for leftover files.
Quit Mail.
I am assuming that you have never found any messages missing, and thus would have no need to make sure the mbox was fully converted when you upgraded to Tiger and Mail 2.x? If that is the case, then delete the mbox file in this INBOX.mbox, and also remove any files other than the Info.plist and Messages folder found in any other mailbox folder.
After doing this, find the Envelope Index file at the root level of the Mail folder, and delete it. If by chance there were any other file with Envelope in the name, delete that as well. Relaunch Mail, and it will announce that it is ready to import your mailboxes. It will not really be importing anything new, but will be reindexing all your mailboxes. While using Rebuild on certain mailboxes (after removing the leftover files) might work, also, this will more or less take care of it, overall.
After this, you should be able to search.
Ernie

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