Mail Header meanings

Someone was using my computer recently and sent an email from my email address without my consent. Can anyone tell me what the little arrow means in the first column of the sent folder. It is the column where the blue ball is when an email is marked as unread. I noticed that most emails do not have that arrow but this one did. It is also the column that shows a curved back arrow when you have replied to an email. Would really appreciate some feedback.

I thought that is what it meant but it doesn't have Fwd: before the subject. It has Re: which is what it has when I have replied to an email. I know I seem to be being a pain but I'm trying to get to the bottom of this because the person has denied sending it and the email was a reply to an email that had been sent to him on his email address. Have you got any other suggestions?

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You can change this in your listing in AddressBook.
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Welcome to the Discussions. This has been seen before.
See:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=721122&#721122
and
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1452855&#1452855
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Greg
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Mime-Vesrion 1.0
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Regards,
ParagJ

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