Old mail

I have been getting new mail from November 12 - 25 2009. These are old mails I have deleted years ago. I have contacted my cable provider and he cleared out all the old mail on all accounts on the server. The mail application keeps spinning, I have to force quit. Mail jams up all other open apps. I cannot get current mail. Anyone having this or a similiar problem.
I have a MavBook Pro, 10.5.8
Thanks,
Mike

Hi Mike,
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ does not exist.

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