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For the last few days, I have been experiencing a strange problem with email on my iPhone 4. I had not changed any email settings on the iPhone or on Gmail prior to the issue, but I have deleted and recreated all email accounts on the iPhone since. I've also installed 4.3.3 since the problem started, and it has not fixed the issue.
Deleting emails within the email app is only temporary. If I delete an email while viewing it, the email comes back within 5 seconds. If I try to select multiple emails to delete and wait a couple seconds (without actually deleting them), they all get unchecked automatically. If I am able to delete a few checked emails before they get unchecked, they disappear for a couple seconds and then reappear.
I am not getting any error messages, just bizarre behavior. I cannot delete emails from my phone anymore. I have to go to Gmail on the web to delete/archive emails.
Finally, if I open the email app and pause at the "Mailboxes" screen, it automatically takes me to the inbox of my first email account within a second or two. It never used to do this.
HELP!

1. Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors and enable "Store deleted messages on the
    server". Close the Preferences window to save the changes.
2. A Deleted Messages folder should have appeared on the left side mailboxes list. Right-click or ctrl-click
    on it and from the contextual menu that appears, choose Delete.
3. Quit Mail.
4. In the Finder, go to Home/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. (If you have Mountain Lion remember that your Library
     folder is hidden, so you have to hold down the Option/Alt button,click on the Go tab at the top and library
     will be in the menu list).
5. Delete any Deleted Messages folder you see within your mailboxes.
6. Launch Mail.
7. Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors and disable "Store deleted messages on
    the server". Close the Preferences window to save the changes.
If a Deleted Messages folder has appeared within the first level of the mailboxes list, select it and do
Mailboxes > Use This Mailbox For > Trash.

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