Mail decides to download all my messages again

Can anyone tell me why mail all of a sudden decides it wants to download all my mail messages again from the server even though I have already downloaded them once. I have several macs and want to download the messages on all machines but not repeated on the same machine. I have mail to delete from the server after 1 week.

It looks like Mail is failing to remove messages from the server according to your settings and/or losing track of which messages have already been downloaded, thus downloading them again. Did you change those settings recently?
Try to remove from the server all the messages that have already been downloaded by clicking the Remove now button in Preferences > Accounts > Advanced -- check for new mail first, just in case there is something amiss and that function doesn’t work as expected.
If Remove now fails to remove the messages from the server, you may try to do so manually using the Account Info window. In order to use that feature, choose Get Info (⌘I) from the Action menu (gear icon) located below the mailboxes list in the main Mail window. You may also try to remove the messages from the server by other means, such as webmail, if the account allows it.

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