Mail downoading old emails from the server

I have a SBC/Yahoo/ATT/?? account that has been working fine. It was updated to their new secruity and pop server settings a couple of months ago. Since then, I have been prompted several times to re-enter the password when doing send/receive. That was ok, just annoying at times.
This weekend I opened up mail and it downloaded every email from the server (as if they were new)! I had certain emails set to redirect to my office, and so my office email got filled with redirected messages. It did not delete my messages from the server, but now I have duplicate/triplicate emails on my desktop. What happened and how do I prevent this from occuring again?!
Please help.

This is a POP account, right? What are your Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings?

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Do a backup.
Take notes of all account information or take screen shots. You may need to set the accounts up again. Quit Mail.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Containers/com.apple.mail. Move the folder com.apple.mail to your desktop. You must move the entire folder, not just the contents.
Re-launch Mail and test. If the problem is solved, recreate any required Mail settings and import any emails you want to save from the folder on the desktop. You can then put the folder in the Trash. If the problem remains, return the folder to where you got it replacing the one that is there.
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On my ipad mini, when I delete an email from the inbox (and it goes into Trash), it immediately deletes that email from the server (ATT/Yahoo). I've called support for both ATT and Apple and can't find a way to have the emails remain on the server.

On my iPad Mini, when I delete an email from the inbox (and it goes into Trash), it immediately deletes that email from the server (ATT/Yahoo). I've called support for both ATT and Apple and can't find a way to have the emails remain on the server.
My husband and I share an email address and if he misses a day checking email on his notebook, he doesn't receive the items that I have sent to Trash on my iPad Mini.
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Is your Yahoo account set up as POP3 or IMAP?

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I know about downloading and removing email from the server by using the "Remove copy from server after retrieving a message" option in the Account preferences tab but I want to keep all of my messages on the server for a few weeks but want to delete spam from the server immediatly. does someone have a script or is there a setting that i'm missing.
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Bill

Please see the following link. Answer is at the bottom. Ray Tollett
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How do I get Mail to download mail and delete it from the server?

I don't think Mail is downloading my E-mail from my server to my computer.
My main e-mail account is set up as a POP mail account and I have it set to: "remove a copy from server after receiving message: right away"
I have a couple of years of e-mail on my computer and it was getting slower and slower to access many of e-mails. I checked the e-mail account on the server and the file size was huge. I browsed the file and there was a ton of old e-mails in my mail file. I figured this is what was making it really slow to access my e-mails. So I went the the setting in Mail under the advanced tab that says: Remove Now. I clicked it and it took a long long time but then my mail file on the server was emptied. But when I went to access the message in the Mail program I would get this message in italics in the body of the e-mail:
The message from Kathleen <[email protected]> concerning “Re: Tivo” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it."
I was online and all my e-mail messages had this exact message (with the name and subject different). Why is that. I thought POP meant it was suppose to download to my computer?

Verify/repair your disk first (not just permissions), as described here:
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1. Quit Mail if it's running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong -- e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see an Envelope Index-journal file there, delete it as well.
4. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be "imported". Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index -- Mail says it's "importing", but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
BTW, you haven't answered which mailbox has the problem. I could be that just rebuilding that mailbox fixes it -- you should verify/repair the disk and make a backup copy of the Mail folder first, nevertheless, though.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user's home folder.

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Saving old emails on the server, not in Mail

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This is a POP account, right? What are your Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings?

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I know that if I went to another PC with Thunderbird--all the old and current messages from the last 55 days should be downloaded to it.
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