Erase old mail messages

I have all my mail accounts set up to erase deleted messages when one month old. Each one of my email accounts is a POP account that I have configured to remove the messages from the server after Mail downloads them. I also have each account configured to erase deleted messages when one month old, as indicated above. However, when I look at the messages in the trash folder, there are hundreds with a date much older than 30 days from today. Does anyone know why these would not have been erased?

You are correct: select box "'remove message from Server after retrieving message/When removed form Box". I found this in my old notes on Mail Preferences for older Macs, too. This is not working, however. Earthlink support suggested I remove cookies, rebuild mail boxes, set up a new account, etc., but I have not made any of these changes.

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I'm currently playing around with purging old mail messages after a certain time period. For test I've set inbox and sent at 7 days and trash at 1 day.
I've read: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4428/6n6j4267s?a=view
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Thanks

I'd created about three weeks of a messages on this server prior to turning on the purge so they should be all legitimate messages and dates.
I ran a /imexpire -n -d -v 3
a snippet of the output. Seems to have deleted messages from the Sent and Trash but for some reason Inbox is left untouched. Sent has the exact same messagedays of 7 too.
user/s0243714/INBOX: exists (180) largest (102058) oldest (1192828919) qused (1117436)
applying ExpireRule: user/s0243714/INBOX
     Rule2: regexp: 1
     Rule5: regexp: 1
     Rule8: regexp: 1
     Action: discard
user/s0243714/INBOX: deleted 0 messages
user/s0243714/Sent: exists (10) largest (0) oldest (0) qused (32778)
applying ExpireRule: user/s0243714/Sent
     MessageDays: 7
     Rule2: regexp: 1
     Rule5: regexp: 1
     Rule8: regexp: 1
     Action: discard
deleting user/s0243714/Sent UID 33
deleting user/s0243714/Sent UID 34
deleting user/s0243714/Sent UID 35
deleting user/s0243714/Sent UID 36
deleting user/s0243714/Sent UID 37
user/s0243714/Sent: deleted 5 messages
user/s0243714/Trash: exists (4) largest (0) oldest (0) qused (16220)
applying ExpireRule: user/s0243714/Trash
     MessageDays: 1
     Rule2: regexp: 1
     Rule5: regexp: 1
     Rule8: regexp: 1
     Action: discard
deleting user/s0243714/Trash UID 16
user/s0243714/Trash: deleted 1 messages

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Happy New Year to you all!
Regards, Mike
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Every time I open the mail program and click on an unread message,
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You need to take this account online in order to download it".
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Although your OS detail provided indicates you are running 10.3.9, you posted in the Mail & Address Book - Tiger discussions so I'm assuming you are running 10.3.9 and not Tiger.
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Move the INBOX.mbox to the Desktop.
When relaunching Mail, a new INBOX.mbox will be created automatically by Mail within the account named folder. This will allow the Mail.app to function properly again and not risk losing any existing messages or new messages downloaded by the account while working on the old INBOX.mbox moved to the Desktop to recover the existing messages.
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Thats great thanks!
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