Mail is erasing messages in my mailboxes.

A while back I absent mindedly downloaded an update on my OS I think, and since then have been having troubles - mostly with Mail. It erases messages in all of my Mailboxes. They are still online on my gmail account and on my wife's computer fine. But not on mine. Then I tried to REINDEX the messages - as found in my help program, but can't find how to get into the Library... Any ideas?

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Many thanks

Hi,
Many thanks for you reply. Yes it looked like the deleted messages from an old exchange account I had had were sitting in a folder on my mac and this was visible in the sidebar. However it was not simply called deleted messages it was named deleted messages (xxx xxx) where xxx xxxx was the name of the old mailbox. So when I went to mailbox to erase deleted messages this folder was not picked up. So I moved everything in the folder to the trash folder (took a long time) and then selected the option to erase trash on quitting. It took hours and hours when I quit mail but I left it running overnight and now the folder is empty and mail is functioning ok. Thanks again for your help

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http://www.ehow.com/how_12135498_fix-duplicate-emails-sent-apple-email.html
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Well, the Mailbox Behaviors settings are specific for each account, and the On My Mac Junk mailbox isn’t associated with any mail account, so there appears to be no way to specify such setting for that particular mailbox.
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Well, the Mailbox Behaviors settings are specific for each account, and the On My Mac Junk mailbox isn’t associated with any mail account, so there appears to be no way to specify such setting for that particular mailbox.
The thing is, the whole situation you’re describing doesn’t really make sense. If those messages end up in the On My Mac Junk mailbox, that means you’re manually marking them as junk after they’ve been moved to a custom “On My Mac” mailbox, which makes me believe what’s really happening here is not that many messages aren’t caught by the junk filter. What appears to be happening is that you have custom rules that prevent the junk filter from being able to catch them...

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I am frequently getting this error message: Mail was unable to remove the deleted messages in the mailbox (my email address) on server "mail.mac.com".
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Sometimes the error message says that time has logged out. The thing is, most of the time, even though I get the error message, the deleted messages are being removed. Once or twice, I had to delete a couple of messages a few times. I've been getting the error message several times a day for the last couple of days.
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Yes. I understand this. I want to set up a rule to move the message to a different folder.
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