Can't copy mails into an "On My Mac" folder

Hello. After changing a gmx pop account into imap, and setting up a new account in mail.app according to these new settings, I left the pop account, although now without counterpart in the net, active in mail.app, since I wanted the sent and received mails to be still available. Now, when trying to copy them to a folder I set up in the On My Mac section, I get an error message that says "987 messages could not be moved to the mailbox "gmx_archiv — On My Mac". An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox "gmx_archiv — On My Mac" ". Strangely, this happens only, but consistently with this account. Not with others. Any idea?
Thanks a lot.

try rebuilding the mailbox.
select your mailbox and choose "Rebuild" from the mailbox menu in the menu bar.

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