Mail automatically moves old messages into a new folder.

Hi,
I noticed today that Mail automatically created a new folder called Aug2009 and moved all my old messages from my Inbox into that folder. How do I stop it from doing that? I would like to be able to see and search through ALL my mail at once, not just one month at a time.
Thanks for your help
-Patrick

Greetings,
Sounds like you have a Rule setup to do that, since it's not something Mail would do all by itself. Look in Preferences > Rules for that and if you see it, delete it; then move the messages back to your Inbox.

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Within the folder /Library/Server/Mail, I found the email stores for both systems. I have gone through each folder and identified the 36 character string that serves to identify the user's mailbox and paired each one to a user id on both systems. On the old system, there are multiple mailboxes for some users, and I think it is a result of the users being deleted and recreated: perhaps the system identified the identical name and assumed that the user might be different and therefore created a unique 36 character id for the mail system.
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