Repeated emails, creating thousands of new emails in my account.

Since the search function is down, i am unable to see if this has been posted; my email messages that i am receiving are repeating themselves causing my account to have thousands (4450) of new emails, up from about 30 normally. anyone know why this is happening? thanks
G5 DC 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

You’re welcome.
For normal POP accounts, leaving messages on the server indefinitely is a bad idea, amongst other reasons because Mail may eventually end up losing track of which messages have already been downloaded, thus causing the problem you’re experiencing.
You never experienced the problem before because there has obviously to be a point in time at which the problem starts to happen, prior to which the problem didn’t happen...
Changing the Remove copy from server setting to Right away shouldn’t be necessary, though. You should be able to leave messages on the server for some time if you wish (e.g. a week), just not indefinitely. At this point, however, solving the problem will probably require manually removing messages from the server in addition to changing the Remove copy from server settings.
You may tell Mail to remove from the server all the messages that have already been downloaded by means of Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove now. Alternatively, you may use the Account Info window to remove specific messages from the server — choose Get Info (⌘I) from the Action menu (gear icon) located below the mailbox list in the main Mail window. And if the account allows web access, you may also remove messages from the server that way.

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