Old email shows as content of new mail when received

This is so weird..and I cannot even begin to think about how it happens. Sometimes (5% of emails?) when i receive a new email, I go to open it as usual. The sender could be a friend the subject line makes sense like the email is going to be about something i want to read - so i go to read it. When I open the email, the email is completely different.
The window that pops up with the title, sender, subject, date and the whole email content is a completely different email (i.e one from my inbox) which I could have received maybe 6 months ago!
The only way I can get around this is to log into my webmail IMAP mail and read it on there, where it opens the correct email....
any ideas!
Guy

Guy,
Welcome to the Discussions.
It would appear likely that this is problem with the Envelope Index. Have you ever taken any action to remove the Envelope Index file (and other files) without first removing the IMAP account folder?
Let's force an overall reindexing via the removal of the Envelope Index. Note the special instructions when forcing the reindexing of IMAP or Exchange accounts in the following:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/3.0/en/14019.html
This will force the reindexing of all the POP mailboxes and all On My Mac mailboxes. With regard to any IMAP accounts if you have any, the practical result of this action of removing the account folder, is that with the IMAP account still set up in the Preferences, Mail will connect to the IMAP server and create a new account folder, and while doing so will index the messages in the mailbox folders of the IMAP accounts on the server.
Keep me posted.
Ernie

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