Mail application has altered itself.

hello. I started up Mail today to find a window appearing announcing that it was a new version of Mail with 'some new features'. When Mail came up it had altered itself and created a new inbox and preferences, losing my .mac aliases in the process. I have not knowingly downloaded a new version of Mail. I'm in the middle of sorting out my emails and now my inbox only goes back to June....it went back many months further before.
Is my old Inbox somewhere in Home how can I restore it? Also, how did this happen? I dont think I altered anything but its a bit weird.

overstuffed mailbox...searching for the emails if theyre still on the computer!

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