Your Mail Index has been damaged. To repair it, quit Mail.

This is the second time in two weeks this has happened. Last time, it worked (Mail says it has to import messages) BUT: I end up with 35,000 unread emails, when I had 73 before!
I have 7 email accounts here, all running IMAP, 1 gmail.
We've had lots of little transient electrical drops lately but the APS seems to catch them almost instantly.
Is there some alternate way for me to avoid the Import action? Some other way to rebuild the index w/o doing this import?
What is Mail doing using an import? Where is it importing from?

I am not a clued up user as you might realise. I do not get nor can a search find a library folder nor any of the other files you have mentioned
The screenshot I have is
Sorry to be so basic.

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