Mail 2.1.3 Issue!

I have suddenly experienced an issue with Mail (2.1.3) after years of problem free use. First, the text of messages from one sender are turning up in other senders' messages. Second, attachments are all showing up as "winmail.dat". And now, when I try to run my HP scanner, Mail fires up and tries to send the scanned image.
Any clarity on this bizarre set of events would be appreciated.

Hi studiomorphic1, and a warm welcome to the forums!
First let's try to fix Mail, 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 these 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

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