Mail deletes messages unexpectedly

Unexpected behvior from Apple Mail.
I have Notifications on. Upon receiving some mails (for instance, confirmations of purchase from Amazon),
I click on "Open" in the Notifications box which appears on the right up side of the screen. After I clicked,
the email is instantly deleted.
I have no rules asking for this all settings in Preferences are set on "Never" regarding deletion.
What's up ?
PS : My two other Mac under same configurarion just don't do that.

do you use the same email on all Macs?
How do you connect to your mail server on all of them.
iCloud, IMAP, POP , Exchange.
The scenario you described would happen if you use the same email account on two or more computers.
On of them would be connecting to the mail server via POP and not leaving copy of the email on the server after downloading it to the local computer.
If that makes sense.
Please post more info.

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