Apple mail showing wrong body in gmail (imap) messages

I asked about this the other day and thought I had solved my own problem by rebuilding Mail. But it is persisting and becoming more than annoying. Does anyone know why this is happening suddenly and how to fix it? I have recently repaired permissions for a back up using SuperDuper!
I received my gmail via IMAP in Apple Mail. It has worked perfectly for years, but in the last week to 10 days, I find that in some mail, the Subject/From do not match the Reply To/Body. Just now I received a confirmation of an appointment and I can't see the date/time because the body is that of another email (which contains the correct body (they are not switched) - see below). Another time, there was a purchase confirmation that was replaced. Information that I need to be able to read and store!

It's not just you. I'm having the same problem -- Gmail, IMAP, subject lines matched with wrong email body.
And I've noticed that in my case, it seems that (at least?) two emails have exchanged the subjects/message index lines and their bodies.
Rebuilding or deleting accounts or deleting the envelope index doesn't help -- it always comes back in a day or two, often with the same emails.

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Something strange happened to my mom's Mail setup with Gmail.
She got a "credentials error" (her words, not mine) and from then on it wouldn't connect to her IMAP mailbox. It would just stay offline with the little exclamation point next to the mailboxes.
I deleted her gmail account in Mail and remade it - so it is working.
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Greetings,
Two questions, is this known to happen every now and then?
I'll say no. I've never had that message. I've been using Gmail IMAP on multiple computers for quite some time.
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Hi Rahul, and a warm welcome to the forums!
If you really need more assistance on this,start a New Topic for yourself at...
http://discussions.apple.com/post!default.jspa?forumID=753
PS. I only use Apple's Mail to help out with it's myriad problems, I prefer Eudora & Thunderbird...
http://www.eudora.com/
http://www.eudora.com/email/features/mac/index.html
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird
PS. I stand firm in my request that if anybody can point out a worse eMail client... I'll eat my hat!

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It's not just you. I'm having the same problem -- Gmail, IMAP, subject lines matched with wrong email body.
And I've noticed that in my case, it seems that (at least?) two emails have exchanged the subjects/message index lines and their bodies.
Rebuilding or deleting accounts or deleting the envelope index doesn't help -- it always comes back in a day or two, often with the same emails.

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This problem seems similar to another recent thread but my Mail app is acting so strangely I think this warrants its own spot.
I have been running Mail up till today with two accounts - a Gmail POP account and a college email ('BlitzMail', for any Dartmouth alums) IMAP account. I had a couple plugins installed - Mail Badger and Mail Act-On.
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Same problem as so many other loyal Mac users on these forums...
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