New mail shows up with an older message

Hi, I'm using Mail as my primary email program downloading from a university email account. I have a ton of mail in it, over 3000 messages in my inbox and a couple thousand in my outbox.
Sometimes when I get a new message, the name of the person it is from shows up in the list at the top correctly, but when I open the message, it is an older message from someone else. This isn't a problem with the server, when I check my mail through the university webpage the correct new message shows up. And there is no way to fix it, even if I find the original email that is opening instead of the new one and erase it, the new message will never show up in my Mail window and I have to check the university webpage to find out what my email said.
It is REALLY irritating Is this because I have too many emails in my folders or what? Is there a way to fix it?
Thanks!
Lis

Well, you can't have messages in your Outbox because that only appears when a message is being sent, not afterward. Your messages are in your Sent mailbox.
It could be that you have too many messages on your Mac, but I think the problem is more likely a corrupted Mail index. To rebuild it, do this:
1. Quit Mail if it's running.
2. Go to Home/Library/Mail and delete the Envelope Index file.
3. Restart Mail and allow it to import your existing messages; when it's done, check to see if your problem has disappeared.
4. To help prevent this from happening, either delete messages you don't need, or archive them somewhere else not in your Mail folder.
Mulder

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