Old mail keeps coming back? & Junk Mail Delete grayed out.

Issue 1
Old mail, dated from previous months, keeps appearing, mainly in Trash.
I read some Discussion about 'ipurge,' -- I tried it as a Terminal command but said it wasn't there.
I checked with the mail server - Google -- and the emails are not there...
Issue 2
Also, on Mail menu>Mailboxes>Erase Junk Mail is grayed out.....and maybe this happen after starting to use a spam filter (SpamSieve).
I sure wish I didn't get so much spam. My email address must have recently gotten picked up...it's disgusting.

ONE DAY LATER -
From another thread I got the idea to check out these ever returning trashed emails. The idea there was to delete Google's Junk folder.
Did that but it didn't seem to solve the problem although the idea of investigating the Google Mail Server.
That led to discover that after clicking on Trash/Delete for emails they went into a Trash folder -- and stayed there -- and a 2nd trashing was necessary and there was a tab/button saying: DELETE FOVEVER, which sort of implies that Trashed items hang around and require this 2nd trashing, with clicking DELETE FOREVER (see photo).
I'll see what happens over the next few days.

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