Mail Displaying Incorrect Emails

Hi there,
I have a gmail account. I've got roughly 50,000 email messages (no, that's not a typo). For some strange reason, it shows me different emails than the one I have selected...as an example, I received an email from a friend, yet it is displaying an iTunes receipt for a purchase I made over a year ago (the email was sent today). The GMail web interface shows the correct email. What gives?
Message was edited by: neenach2002

Mail has Smart Addresses that will display the name and email address under Preferences > Viewing, but your issue sounds like a different issue.
Did you setup an outlook.com alias in Outlook.com when it made the transition? If not, add an alias and see if that helps. You can also test sending from the outlook.com alias to see if the results are as expected.
For example if your Hotmail email is [email protected] then setup an alias [email protected]
If that fails, test in a new User.
Create a new User in System Preferences.
Log into your new User.
You can skip the Apple ID setup unless you are testing iCloud.
Select Don't Sign in > Continue > Skip
Open Mail and enter your Hotmail account.
Does the problem go away?

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