Mysterious "Sent" messages from Mail

In searching for an old email, I came across 7 messages that showed up in the "Sent" file. 5 were sent from my .Mac account to my other email address. The other two were sent from my other email account back to the same account. All 7 messages were sent in the span of two minutes on 2 nov 2007 from 8:06-8:08pm. The subject lines were all two letters such as "sw", "sd", "df" etc except for the first one which was "egs". They never showed up in the "inbox" as I would have noticed the strange appearance, as they had no text in the body, just an address line and subject. Only happened on my laptop, and hasn't happened since, and the machine seems to run fine. Anyone able to explain this? Thanks

Hi there Chris,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you saw an iCloud storage alert and tried to free up some space but you're still running into the issue. Take a look at the article linked below, it provides a lot of great information about iCloud storage and should help you free up iCloud storage space.
Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support
Take care,
-Jason

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