Incoming email replaces content with contents from old email already in inb

This morning for no apparent reason, incoming email has its content replaced with the entire content from seemingly random emails received months ago. It also replies the sender email to that attached to the old content.
What could be happening here?

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
This is an indexing problem. Are you using any plugins or add on software for Mail? Any anti-virus or internet software, or backup software that is not Apple?
If only noticed in the Inbox, then open the Inbox (for one account only, if more than one account is setup), click on Mailbox in the Menubar, and choose Rebuild. Rebuild repairs the universal index that Mail uses, but be aware that at one point in its operation, all message will disappear from the list of messages before all reappear. It can take several minutes if there are lots of messages.
Is this account POP or IMAP, btw? I ask this because you should not use the method Mulder recommended if using an IMAP account, without additional steps.
Ernie
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