Apple mail moves my emails

I have a geriatric (2003) iMac that still does what I want, but it has recently developed a very irritating habit. I like incoming emails to appear on screen in chronological order of their arrival and to stay that way. Suddenly the machine has taken to shifting recently arrived emails after I have opened them, and relocating them en bloc in the middle of emails received months ago. I'm using It's Apple, version 3.6 (936).

Hello,
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ may or may not exist.

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