Why is email disappearing from Trash after 7 days?

Email from my IMAP email account that I move to Trash disappears after 7 days even though my settings are set to remove "never" on all devices (iMac, MacBook Air, iPhone, iPad).  Today is 4/22.  The oldest email in Trash is dated 4/13.

Yup, as I stated, all my devices were set to delete "Never".   I do manually empty my Trash on a regular basis, usually removing items after about a month so I have some time to retrieve something that becomes relevant again.
This is a new problem that suddenly started happening with no (apparent) changes to any settings.  Unfortunately, I can't poinpoint it to an incident (e.g. software update or new device).
I've just changed all of my devices from delete Never to After One Month.  I'll see if mail is deleted as indicated now, which would mean some setting somewhere got "stuck" on 7 days.
I'll also check with my IMAP host (BlueHost if anyone knows anything about them), although I've checked the server settings and there is nothing there to change the deletion frequency.
Thanks for the responses.

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