Unable to move or delete messages

Hi
Recently I have had difficulty when trying to move or delete messages in mail. It does not affect all messages, and not always all of the time. For example, I tried to clear out my Sent folder yesterday. I was able to move or delete most, but three messages will usually grey-out when I try to delete or move them. On the few occasions they have disappeared when I delete them, they reappear the next time I log into Mail.
Yesterday I also went through a folder and moved several hundred unwanted mails to the Trash. However, when I now go to Trash to check I have not deleted something I want to keep, only a tiny proportion of the mails that should be in Trash appear (I have not emptied Trash since clearing out the folder). I'm not sure if this is a related problem or something else entirely.
I have deleted the Cache.db file and moved the Mail folder from the Cache Folder to the desktop, and rebuilt permissions, but these have not made any difference.
Any suggestions on how to solve this problem will be gratefully received.
Thanks
Phil

I was responding to other suggestions in this thread regarding excessive time to download mails, an issue that I also had - are you saying that those solutions are incorrect?
Without knowing exactly which suggestion you were following, it's very difficult to say, and speculating would be making assumptions which could very well be wrong.
Who is your email provider, and what kind of email account are you dealing with: POP, IMAP, or both?
If you have just a POP account, the solution could be one of two different things I can think of: either you need to rebuild you Mail index, or your preferences are corrupt and need to be recreated. Let's assume the best case for now, that you have a POP account and your Mail index is flaky. In that case:
Quit Mail if it's running.
Go to Home/Library/Mail and delete any files that begin with "Envelope Index".
Restart Mail and wait for the index to be rebuilt, then check to see if the problem continues. If not, problem solved.
If it does continue, try this:
Quit Mail if it's running.
Go to Home/Library/Preferences and remove the com.apple.mail.plist file.
Restart Mail, setup your POP account(s) again and Mail will find your existing mailboxes automatically. When it's done, check to see if the problem continues.
In either case, if you have any IMAP accounts, go to Home/Library/Mail and move the folders for those accounts to your Desktop after quitting Mail, before you do any other steps above.
Post back with results.

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