Apple mail - sent item duplicates

I have two computers with osx 10.4 installed.
Each has a unique imap account. Somehow, within the last few months some sent message (particularly ones with attachments) are duplicated in the sent items folder.
I setup a rule that emails the person sending the email a copy of the same message. Sure enough, when an email is drafted and sent 'once' it occasionally sends twice to the recipient.
This happens most often when an attachment is included with the email, but not always.
Any ideas?
I have rebuilt mailbox indexes and installed all current updates.

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