Can't delete email on Intel iMac

I upgraded from my old iMac flat screen to an Intel iMac 20". I'm using Mac Mail. All my old email transfered over with no problem. When I went to delete the oldest email, it would not let me delete any of those over a three month period. I've deleted all previous recipients under the help window and have rebuilt the mail file with no change. I've tried moving the old emails to another mail box but they will not transfer. Every time I hit delete the color of the email changes but it never leaves the screen. To make matters worse when you click on one of the old emails you get who you sent it to and the subject but there is message that you sent, just a blank page. I can delete more recient emails but not the three months from last fall. I took the iMac into the Apple Store and a tech at the Genius Bar was stumped.

Did you check to see if you have Show Deleted Messages enabled under the View menu? If you do, turn that off. If that's not the problem, do you have Mail setup to move deleted messages to it's Trash folder and empty the Trash when you quit Mail? If not, you should do that. Previous Recipients has nothing to do with this problem, so deleting them won't help.
Try rebuilding your Mail index like this:
1. Quit Mail if it's running.
2. Go to ~/Library/Mail and delete the Envelope Index file(s).
3. Restart Mail and wait for it to import your existing messages; when done, test to see if you can delete those other emails.
Mulder

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