Unable to delete mail from Inbox to Trash

Hi,
I'm having a couple of deleting issues with regards to mail in my Inbox. I am unable to move any mail form my inbox to trash. The following error is appearing:
The message “#######” could not be moved to the mailbox “Trash — mail.#######.co.uk” The destination mailbox “Trash — mail.#######.co.uk” does not allow messages to be moved to it.
Now obviously the error is pretty self explanatory. I can't move mail from the inbox to trash which is used by a SMTP account. But weirdly enough, up until recently I could quite easily do this.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Dan.

Is this a local account (POP3 or POP3s) or an IMAP account?
If it is local you might need some disk repair. If it is IMAP you might need to check if the permissions have changed. You could also try removing and recreating the trash folder.

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