Accessing trash folder causes folder to lock on server?

Hi,
I've been having this problem. I hope someone can help with some advice:
My workplace IMAP account's trash folder is named "deleted-messages". I use this folder to store my trashed messages on my IMAP server. In Apple Mail, I had mapped this successfully as the Trash folder for about 2 years already. I've been happily using Apple Mail during this time.
A couple of days ago, I could no longer access my deleted-messages folder:
1. each time i deleted a message, Apple Mail would tell me it could not move the message to the 'deleted-messages' folder.
2. each time i tried to view the folder's contents, Apple Mail would not respond and would show me the 'spinning beachball' until I forced a quit.
But I have not had a problem using other email clients (Thunderbird and Pine).
When I logged into my workplace server through a command prompt, I noticed a "deleted-messages.lock" file in my mail directory. I deleted the lock file, and all my other clients are able to access my deleted-messages and delete my mails correctly. However, when I access "deleted-messages" (or Trash) using Apple Mail, I get the same 2 problems listed above, and a new ".lock" file is created in the mail directory.
I can't seem to get around this - I have completely deleted my account in Apple Mail and recreated one, but the same problem arises.
Can someone help me understand what's going on?
thanks!

ok, found the problem - there was a bug with the new imapd service being run...
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