Ghost Mailboxes After Deleted

Sometimes when I delete a mailbox that I no longer need, the mailbox itself don't delete, instead it's color turns to white. Hence ghost like. Why is that sometimes happens?
All of the messages and/or mailboxes have been removed from the mailbox. When the mailbox don't delete and changes color, I have to delete it again to delete it permanently.
Thanks for the help.

Bump - does no one else have this issue? Today it was saying "Incoming mail - Receiving 33 of 33" and nothing appeared. I'm concerned that a. I'm gettinga lot of spam and b. it's being shuffled to somewhere on my hard drive that I can't clean-up.

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Bump - does no one else have this issue? Today it was saying "Incoming mail - Receiving 33 of 33" and nothing appeared. I'm concerned that a. I'm gettinga lot of spam and b. it's being shuffled to somewhere on my hard drive that I can't clean-up.

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