subject line and body don't match

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subject line and body don't match

This only happens about every 30-40 emails (about once a day) but I can't fix it. The subject line on these emails is mismatched with the body. The subject line is usually from the current day but the body is from an email that's in my Inbox that is a few days old.
There seems to be no way to get to the real, current body of the email, even after re-starting Mail.
Any suggestions?

G5 PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on May 21, 2008 6:06 PM

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Answer 1

V.K.

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May 21, 2008 8:37 PM in response to craigst2

I would then try to rebuild the entire index. Quit Mail and move the file Envelope Index from the folder homedirectory/Library/Mail to the desktop. Start Mail. It will say that it needs to import your messages. let it. It will take a couple of minutes and hopefully fix the problem.

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dtjay7

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May 21, 2008 7:47 PM in response to craigst2

I have the same thing happening. Mine is every email that is off by a fixed measure of time. I did just restore from a time machine backup and I was thinking that was the problem???

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V.K.

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May 21, 2008 7:52 PM in response to craigst2

rebuild your mailboxes. Choose "Rebuild" from the mailbox menu.

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craigst2 Author

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May 21, 2008 8:31 PM in response to V.K.

Tried your suggestion to Rebuild. Didn't work, unfortunately. Still a mismatch.

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Guychi

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Jun 18, 2008 11:19 PM in response to V.K.

I get the same problem, which causes me to effectively lose (occasionally) very valuable emails.

I rebuilt the entire index but the problem persists.

Any other ideas?

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