Mailbox "recovered messages" fills up with copies of same message

After having had communication problems abroad using a 3G key Internet connection ( bad signal, jumping back to 2G, aborting connection suddenly, ...) I receive now systematicaly a copy of a mail I sent, one day before, to someone else, in a mailbox "recovered messages" (this is however my translation of the french name of the mailbox:  ( "Messages récupérés - IMAP"). Deleting this message does'nt cure the problem: the message comes again (I do'nt know from where) and again. Can somebody help me to stop this reoccurant mail?
Many thanks in advance!
(Macbook Pro Retina, Yosemite 10.10.1, Mail Version 8.1)

Log in to the mail server through its web page and delete the mailbox, after moving any of the messages it contains that you want to keep.

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