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I've done countless reinstalls over existing installations of various OSs, and I've never before run across anything unusual that happened as a result thereof.

The other night, though, after I did a Ventura reinstall, I found this guy - NOTE THE DATE - in my Drafts mailbox.

Has anybody experienced a similar occurrence?

And has anybody got a clue how it might have come about?

In my case, those are usually the result of my getting distracted and either forgetting to hit send or absent-mindedly forgot I started and are old because I seldom ever look in Mail's Draft folder.

I'm constantly in and out of my Draft mailbox, and that draft was, and I can say this with 100% certainty, NOT laying around for 13 months.

Knowing my habits, I can safely say that it was either sent or deleted the day it was created.

And here's another anomaly.

According to the date, I sent it to myself LAST January.

POP3 (and I clean out my on-line in-box every night).

"On my Mac."

Well that shoots down my theory of a glitch at the server.

And compounding the mystery, I just found out that my Mail "Rules" have disappeared and been replaced by a single rule covering mail from Apple addresses.

This one's obviously on Apple!