MAIL acting crazy

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In the last several days, MAIL app. has been acting crazy ! Duplicating messages, re-marking read as unread, destroying attachments . . . It seems that others are having similar experiences during the last week or so. What is going on ? Is there an "insider knowledge" available ?

In the last several days, MAIL app. has been acting
crazy ! Duplicating messages, re-marking read as
unread, destroying attachments . . . It seems that
others are having similar experiences during the last
week or so. What is going on ? Is there an "insider
knowledge" available ?
Good to know that I am not alone!!
In my case, after I have deleted some messages, in a few minutes, the deleted messages came back and shown as NEW MESSAGES!
This is driving me crazy as I have to repeatedly delete messages again and again and again and ....
Yes, this all happens a couple of weeks ago...
I thought that because I have so many messages in my folders so I deleted some messages but that didn't help.
Apple tech: Pls take a look at this problem. It is very annoying to say the least.

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