Apple mail: Sender not matching message

I had a problem with my messages from my apple account through Apple Mail. When I opened up the message, the message was from someone else and from a different date then who was listed as the sender. So Bob sent me a message and when I opened up the email it was a message from Steve from six months ago. So what I did was to rebuild my mac email box.
To rebuild your specific mailbox, you must select the specific mailbox. Then go to the menu mailbox and click on Rebuild.
This did take some time, but it cleared up the problem and fixed all new and old message that had the problem.

Hello Art Kleimer,
It may help to rebuild the affected mailboxes in Mail.
Mail (Mavericks): Rebuild mailboxes
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14958
Cheers,
Allen

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My Apple Mail has both emails set up to it. I notice sometimes I would recieve an email only to the [email protected] one or sometimes receive an email only to the gmail account. Other times they would send to both. - Shouldn't they always go to both accounts? People only know my bluhost one and even if they send an email to my bluehost one sometimes it only goes to the gmail account when i check apple mail. This is one of the reasons I didn't keep just the gmail account and kept both in Apple Mail. I'm affraid if I only keep the gmail I'm going to miss some messages I won't recieve, vise versa.
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Hello,
I have my email through Bluehost, a web hosting site. I did this so I can have a custom domain such as [email protected]. Checking mail through Bluehost is horrible so I have a forward set up to gmail.
My Apple Mail has both emails set up to it. I notice sometimes I would recieve an email only to the [email protected] one or sometimes receive an email only to the gmail account. Other times they would send to both. - Shouldn't they always go to both accounts? People only know my bluhost one and even if they send an email to my bluehost one sometimes it only goes to the gmail account when i check apple mail. This is one of the reasons I didn't keep just the gmail account and kept both in Apple Mail. I'm affraid if I only keep the gmail I'm going to miss some messages I won't recieve, vise versa.
Another issue why I have both emails on Apple Mail is when I would send something at times it would show up as the gmail address which is slightly different even though I made in gmail settings to use my domain from bluehost.
My goal is to eventually just use the gmail account in apple mail but trust im not missing any potential incoming messages, and also to be able to send out messages all having my custom domain blue host address.

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