Trash box refuses to allow deleted mail to be moved there

I've trawled through the posts and so far not found this exact problem so I thought I'd post here. Until last week I had no problems with Mail, but suddenly when deleting emails as usual the pop3 Trash refused to co-operate and gave me the following messages. The message “*********...” could not be moved to the mailbox “Trash — pop3UWClub”The destination mailbox “Trash — pop3UWClub” does not allow messages to be moved to it.
I have tried various remedies, including rebuild without success. In fact "rebuild" for this box is greyed out. Also the trash item in the sidebar has a grey triangle against it but clicking it makes it rotate only. There is nothing to show. All comments welcome, well most anyway. SaK

....hmmm if I remember correctly you need to uncheck "store deleted messages on the server" in the Mail preferences

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