My deleted emails keep reappearing!  cannot delete them!

I have a weird problem. In Mail, I keep getting a ton of deleted old emails. They just reappear in the inbox. I rebuilt the envelope index file. I rebuilt the mailbox. Still same problem.
It is a comcast POP email account.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help with this!

I have the same problem
I discovered that if I look at emails that have been sent to trash, select them and press delete they all come back into the trash. When I do the proper erase deleted messages then they don't.
I noticed some people were having this problem on iphone as well.
I now have emails coming back into the Trash weeks, or months after I have deleted them, particularly ones with photos attached that I have sent through Kodak EasyShare, and copied to myself!! does anyone know what I can do about this? apart from being a waste of time, I might receive 100 photos in one day which slows everything down and effects my data usage.
And sometimes their are multiple maybe 5, copies of the same emails
apart from that
I often receive two copies of the same emails, one will go into my inbox and one to trash or wherever I have a rule set for it to go.
I have loads of emails, I sort them all into folders with rules, and keep them for easy reference, especially if they are about work, would this have anything to do with it? Is there a limit on how many emails you can keep?

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