Deleted emails greyed out in Inbox

Hi,
I have absolutely no idea how it happened but i have suddenly got upwards of 1000 deleted emails showing in my Inbox, greyed-out. I cant move them or do anything else with them, much less remove them.
I tried Cmd-Z when it happened, nothing happened, then I listed them by sender (Facebook) and tried to move them to Trash with no luck either.
Anyone got a suggestion?
Helen.

One more thing to try, but make sure you have your Mail folder backed up. You already did, so no need to do it again. But also make a backup copy of the Mail Downloads folder as well. It's nearby.
Navigate to your Home Folder Library, this time to Preferences, and move the file com.apple.mail.plist to the Trash. Important, don't empty the Trash. If this doesn't work you can use File>Put Back to restore everything the way it was.
Doing this will bring you to the initial Mail setup and you will have to redo all your accounts, rules, mailboxes, whatever. Before doing this, it's probably a good idea to make screenshots of everything you will need again (Cmd-Shift-4) It's a PITA, but it may fix the problem. All your mail messages should be intact, but if there's a problem along the way, you just use Put Back for that .plist file. And, you have the Mail and Mail Downloads folders backed up, which you would move/drag back to their original locations.

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