Error message: The message from - has not been downloaded from the server.

"The message from Doug Peets <[email protected]> concerning “Fires” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it."
I get this error message several times per day, even on my Sent mail box, and Drafts, which clearly does not need to be downloaded (does it?). It usually happens when I switch mailboxes, from In to Sent, to Drafts and so on.
I have 100 Gigs of hard drive with 90 Gigs free. I have about 6,700 saved incoming e-mails and 4,700 sent e-mails.
TRhis has only started happening in the last couple months. How do i get rid of it? Is it because i have too many saved e-mails?
When I shut down Mail and re-open it, the messages display properly, but this is a nuisance several times per day.
Thanks,
Doug.

Thanks. I moved half of the messages to a new mailbox "old e-mails", then copied that to a new folder on my desk top, which saved it with a .mbox suffix, then emptied the Old e-mails mailbox in Mail. I will repeat this every three months.
So far, so good.
thanks for your help.
Doug Peets

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