Old mail has reappeared in grey?

Help!
On Saturday we had a clean inbox on Sunday 1,842 old emails from January 2006 to the present showed up in our inbox and drafts folder. They're all greyed out and can't be deleted. My IP says it's not their deal. In our Mail Preferences, our messages are set to be deleted once we remove them from the server. Don't know why they're here or how we can delete them permanently.
Out of ideas. Thanks for your help.
Mac PowerPC G4 Tower Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi David -
Okay, that last email was very helpful. Sent me in the right direction.
The greyed out emails in my inbox were definitely old deleted emails that hadn't been permanently erased.
I went to preferences, under Trash > Mailbox Behaviors > "Move deleted messages to the trash". It was checked on. I toggled it off and on a couple of times. After that, any new messages that I sent to myself, and deleted, went straight to the Trash. Strange. Still don't know why all the old emails from January reappeared in my inbox last weekend, I had had the "permanently erase deleted messages" clicked on for "delete after one week"?
Next, I went to the menu command "Erase Deleted email" (since it wasn't automatically doing it) and a drop down menu asked which account to permanently erase the deleted emails from - I chose "all accounts" and all of the greyed out emails disappeared.
I'll keep an eye on the emails over the next few weeks to see if the deleted files are getting permanently deleted. Feels good to have a clean program again. Thanks for being out there!

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