Unwanted messages showing up in Drafts folder

Hi there. I've been having a problem for a while now, and when switching computers it followed me, so I figure enough is enough. In Mail, I have old messages, both ones that I've sent and ones I've received, showing up in the Drafts folder. I can go in and delete it (only one shows up at a time), but as soon as I click out of the Drafts folder, another one appears.
It's not really a life-threatening problem, obviously, but it's kind of obnoxious. Any ideas? I saw in a couple of other posts that it was possible to go into the Preferences and uncheck something in Accounts/Mailbox Behaviors that had something to do with Drafts, but I don't see anything in there.
Thanks.
Jeff

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There is a kind of index corruption that causes messages to randomly appear in a mailbox different from where they’re supposed to be. The most amazing (and apparently also the most common) variant of the problem is the messages appearing in Outbox, which causes Mail to think they’re waiting to be sent and dutifully proceed to try to send them. It looks like the “destination” mailbox is Drafts in your case, but the problem is almost certainly the same.
This is not to be confused with the problem of a copy of sent messages remaining in Drafts after having sent them, which apparently only affects IMAP accounts set to store drafts on the server, and which can by “fixed” by telling Mail to store drafts locally instead.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, and making sure that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see an Envelope Index-journal file there, delete it as well.
4. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder.

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