On booting Mail 4.5 says Rebuild Mail Databases

It claims another computer is accessing my mail accounts. I got an iPhone recently and the problem did start at that time. I have had an iPod touch for a long time and never had this problem.
Usually I just say quit and relaunch mail and everything is okay. It only happens when I boot.
Lately I have had to force quit Mail.
On one occasion, after cloning my Hard disk, i did say Rebuild Mail Databases. Bad decision. I had to force quit when it indicated it had finished. and Mail sent some messages that were a year old out again, causing confusion. Some of the recipients received a blank email with the subject complete. Others received the complete email.
I use SpamSeive, Mailtags, Mail Act-On and Mail follow up plug ins.
Any ideas?
Thanks

I solved the problem by following this advice from WZZZ
"Try moving the small 8.1MB Mail.app to the Trash. But don't empty it. Then download and install the Security Update again. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1586
Luckily I didn't empty or trash my original Mail and after installing that update (link above), Mail opens fine.

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Hello,
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plus
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Hi Shanky_621,
I do not have a
SQL Server 2008 r2 folder with in the release folder.
Currently I am trying it from DVD which Alberto Morillo has suggested.
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