Lion Mac Mail: Re: New email showing up as an old email from a complete different address

It's a tad strange. I got an email from a friend say "Mary". I saw her name and the subject line just fine but when I opened it, it showed an email from another friend say "Nate" from over a year and a half ago! His name was in the from and the email address was just as it was so many months ago. I tried a search for the same email from Nate-- it showed up once with his name in my archives and as the content of Mary's email. I checked my iphone. Mary's email was there and fully intact. I read the new email she sent with no problem. It seems that for some reason this new email has it's wires crossed, like for some reason it wishes it was from Nate instead. (Granted, Nate's email was definitely more exciting-- but Mary's wasn't too shabby either.) Le confusing! Never happened before or since.
Anyone got a clue?

Yes, but did you check your present IP, or the last one?
I'm also wondering if it could have anything to do iwth the fact that I have very big inboxes & sent mail boxes.
Not likely.
Wasn't sure if rebuilding my mailboxes might help - my mail program isn't finding files properly either.
Not likely to do with the sending problem, but...
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup),  it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ may or may not exist.

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