When I delete emails , they just get deleted and do not get moved to trash

When I delete an email , it just gets deleted and does not get moved to trash. Its pretty frustrating as I regularly hit the delete by mistake and I lose the email because it just does not get moved to trash .I have checked the preference to find some setting that might cause this ( like delete trash immediately) in mail preferences to no avail. I also have ran file system check and cleaned and repaired the Mac-HD in hope of solving the problem to no avail. This has been happening only for a few days. The funny thing is , I also noticed that a folder I was trying to copy from My main HD to a secondary one ( not in mail but just on the computer), suddenly disappeared and I could not locate it . Am I going crazy? Someone please help.

Hi hadjibaba. You’re welcome.
Report the names of the files and folders present at the first level of the ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/ account folder in the Finder.
In order to post the exact file names and avoid typing mistakes, proceed as follows. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/. With that folder open, if you’re looking at it in View > as List mode, first collapse any expanded folders so that the Finder only shows the files and folders at the first level. Now, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post.
BTW, if you’re running Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), as your profile indicates, it would have been more appropriate to discuss this in the Mail & Address Book - Mac OS X 10.3 & earlier forum. If the discussion applies to both Mail 1.x and Mail 2.x, it doesn’t really matter, but it’s difficult to know that in advance.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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Hi Csound1, thanks. The email host is 1and1.co.uk, however, i am going to fess up and make myself look like a plonker now -
the email account in question was set up in Outlook as POP - stupid, stupid, stupid me, wasted an afternoon on this! I have now changed the Outlook account to IMAP and Mail.app works perfectly - and looks much nicer than Outlook did. Im in the middle of converting from Windows to a Mac, and still finding my way around the Mac
The lesson learned, never assume - always double check! All my other email addresses with 1and1 are all imap, except this one, and it happened to be the first one I set up in the Mail.app. (bows head in disgrace!)
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