Mail does not delete

I keep on deleting mail that never totaly goes away! I delete it, empty the trash, close mail, reopen it and the search bar finds them again!
I did import old mailboxes but I deleted each and one of the trashes! What can I do?

yes. I think I might have found the reason. I use gmail and the deleted mail in the trash on the server stays in there for long unless you go all the way into the trash and "delete it forever". I did that, deleted agin (For the X time) in my mail inbox these emails...it seems fine. I ll check into it later/tomorrow. With all the cloud stuff, servers, multiple machines it gets kinda hard!!!

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