Odd behaviour by Mail

Firstly.
I have a number of inboxes under the title MAILBOXES.
I have a number of SMART MAILBOXES.
It has all worked well for ages.
Today I forwarded an email from my ordinary Inbox MAILBOXES.
Now I find it is no longer there - simply not in my Inbox,
- it is, however, in it's proper place in a Smart Mailbox!
How did that happen I wonder?
Secondly,
I took a while composing an email to send in reply to one I had received.
Its in my ordinary Sent box OK.
However in the Smart Mailbox there are 20 copies of it each showing how far I had got almost every minute of the 20 minutes it took me to write it!
It is difficult to describe what it looks like so, if you are interested, & I hope somebody is, I have put it here on Dropbox