Strange graphics in Mavericks Mail, No list of accounts, No way to see data typed in TO, CC, Subject, etc

Mail under Mavericks was working OK on my old iMac.  I Migrated to a brand new one and Mail has all kinds of issues with its display graphics.  I can't see my list of accounts and their associated folders. I can create a new email by using File->New Message, but the graphics have issues: can't see the text when typing on the Subject line nor the TO, CC fields, etc.
Accounts don't appear on the left side of the Accounts display, but when I click on the blank space, the account info shows up on the right side.
The whole Mail program is virtually unusable in this state.

/Ditto
Sometimes my mail will send, but the process will take anywhere between 5 and 15 minutes to do so. More often than not, though, it just disappears into a black hole. Plus, this just started happening two days ago. All was well before then.

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