Those are other Mail windows you’ve somehow opened. Flick up on the non-dimmed ones (i.e. everything but the rightmost current window) to get rid of them. If you want to keep those windows around, unfortunately, you can’t prevent them from briefly appearing when you activate Mail.
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Thanks—that makes sense.