Sent messages re-appearing from years ago.

Today I checked for something I sent over the weekend in my Sent items in the Mail client on my Mac, and discovered that a lot of emails I sent over a year ago (up to 3 years ago) have magically appeared in my sent mail as having been sent only a couple of days ago.
This means that if I look at 'today' I have about 50 sent messages, when in reality I have only sent about 15, the other 30 or so being made up from messages I sent on this day over the past 3 years.
Any ideas on how to fix?? I've tried re-building the mailbox with no luck.
Thanks
C

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