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Help! Mailbox rebuild creates zombie emails

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Joe Clark
Help! Mailbox rebuild creates zombie emails

I tried a rebuild on the sent box of a POP3 account. Although I manually delete mails on a regular basis, when I started the rebuild, the sent mailbox began to fill up with much older mails, dating back to 2010This used up a whopping 45GB on my HD.
I've tried deleting these mails, dumping them in batches into the Mail trash then emptying the trash, but they keep coming back like zombies. 
In Mail preferences > accounts > advanced, I have it set to remove copies from the server after one week. This appears to apply to incoming mail. I rebuilt the inbox earlier without any problem


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