Why duplicate emails in MacMail?

Both on my iMac and my wife's MacBook we are both suddenly getting two identical copies of nearly every email. This happened once before and then went away. How do we stop it? My web site was just hacked but I didn't think it affected the email.

ditto. any luck getting it back into 1 copy per email?
i found a link that suggested trashing the plist file associated with the Mail.app. Here's the link: http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/168499-mail-showing-dupli cated-incoming-messages.html
I did what it suggested and it worked, especially the recommendation to put the plist file back after opening and quitting mail once.
I'm slightly concerned about why this happened in the first place, if you know anything more please let us know!

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