Spinning wheel: Mac Mail

I inadvertently shut my iMac down while Mail was still running. When I restarted, Mail told me it had to re-import my mail before continuing. I did that, it reimported my messages (150,000), and now everything appears to be working, except for the fact that it won't show me the mail messages. On the left side, I can see that I have 26 unread messages - and I can read them through my iPhone, but my inbox appears empty, and the spinning whell goes round and round... tried rebooting... help...

Steve, any solutions so far? This very same problem just occured a couple of days ago and it's slightly (...) annoying. I tried rebuilding the mailbox, also re-indexing all mails by deleting those files in the library, which usually helped. But not this time...
I have plenty of RAM and 10GB free space on my drive.
Does that advice of repairing the HD permissions in the linked thread help and does it also apply for SSD?
Thanks.
Patrick

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