Mail message re-appears after deleting

Somehow a message in mac mail will not go away. No matter how many times I delete it, it comes back sometime later. It's a message that I wrote and keeps showing up in my DRAFTS folder.

rebuild your drafts mailbox using mailbox menu->rebuild. also, is your account IMAP? then you can try deleting this message directly on the server from webmail interface. in general for imap accounts I suggest turning off the option to keep drafts on the server. that's done in mail preferences->accounts->mailbox behavior.

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