Outgoing mail sometimes duplicates into trash...

Quite often when sending mail on my mac I will get multiple copies of my sent message in the trash. It doesn't happen with every message, or every person I send to. It seems to happen with specific people (most people that is) but not others (of course it doesn't happen to people I can comfortably send multiple messages to to test with without them getting annoyed...). Sending from iPhone or iPad with the same account doesn't create any trash copies. The trash copies also don't show up (through imap) on the iphone or ipad, so I think it's just isolated within mail on the mac...

I'm a Mac newbie and new to the Mail program. I just emptied once again my trash folder which contained multiple copies of the sent messages--some with even 20 copies of the same message. I cannot say there is a pattern because this is all new to me. But it seems that some of the duplicate messages were old, but they seem to have "appeared" in the trash folder this morning. I'm wondering if there is something I can do, e.g., setting preferences, etc., to fix or manage this problem. Thanks.

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