Removal of mail from server in mail

my Mail program will not remove mail from server when marked to do so in advanced preference settings. I have marked mail to be removed upon retrieval, but the mail sits on the server and builds up until I manually click "remove from server". What to do? Is there an update for 10.3.9 to correct this?

Bob,
Glad my little "0 size" discovery helped you as well!
Here was my post from the other thread that you said helped you out:
Marc, thanks so much for your post. The first time I tried this it did not help, (in fact I deleted quite a few "new" emails with no luck), but then remembered the ctrl-click "Get Info" command on the faulty email account inbox just to see what was going on. . . . .
In the window that shows all the messages that are currently on the server, ALL my mail showed up, which seemed strange that it would not download it even though Mail knew it was there. I noticed, however, under the "size" column that one of the messages had a size of 0 (zero). I deleted that one, clicked "get mail" and it all started downloading! Apparently the first time I tried it I just erased the wrong messages, and managed to miss the one that was causing the problem (because it was not the message immediately after the last one successfully received as Marc suggested).
To everyone else who is having this problem. . . do the "Get Info" command on your inbox that is having the problem and check to see if any of the messages on your server that are not downloading have a file size of "0". This was obviously a glitch on the server side, but at least I know how/where to find which message is causing the backup. Hope this helps!

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