Mail Rules and Forwarding

I use Mail on my iMac to receive mail from a number of accounts - POP3. On one account I have a Rule set up which forwards received mail to a web mail account. The account Inbox in Mail shows the incoming message and it can be opened. It then shows an arrow next to the message. Clicking on this does not state that the message has been forwarded. Instead it gives an error message "Mail was unable to find your response ....." Why is this and can it be fixed?

It looks as though I have maybe solved the problem.  I just kept forwarding each one to aol_phish abuse, one after the other.  It took about an hour a day just to do this.  For four days.  I was half expecting to be reprimanded by aol.  I was not.  And this morning I got up and instead of 16 or so, there were three.  That was hours ago and no more have appeared.

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