ICloud mail syncing issues

My daughter and I have seperate iCloud mail accounts.  Her mail messages have started to show up in my mail  --  on my phone, iMac and on the web.  (My messages are still there too.)  This began after I bought a song for her from iTunes.  She does not have her own iTunes account but rather I buy her songs on her iPod using my account, just to have some parental control.  After buying it on iTunes, I saw her iPod in the list of devices associated with my iTunes account.  I may have made some changes in the "Summary" tab to create this problem.  Please help seperate our email accounts.  THANKS. 

What you describe is not technically possible, so something else must be going on
Firstly, do you actually have completely independent iCloud accounts, which were setup independently using separate AppleIDs, or are you actually using different iCloud email aliases within the same iCloud account?
If you are using different iCloud aliases within the same account then you will receive each other's email. Aliases are not separate email accounts. All email to all aliases goes into the same InBox.
iTunes and iCloud are separate, so her iPod appearing in your iTunes is to be expected.
When you check in a Settings > iCloud on your devices are you each signed in to your respective iCloud accounts?

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