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Any time I open any folder or subfolder, all the messages fly to the trash file. How do I stop that?

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Even if I return them to the original folder, they migrate to the trash again.

Even if I return them to the original folder, they migrate to the trash again.

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does the account actually still exist? IMAP mail accounts are synchronized, so you open the folder for an old account and everything synchronizes into oblivion.

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does the account actually still exist? IMAP mail accounts are synchronized, so you open the folder for an old account and everything synchronizes into oblivion.

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Yeah, that explains it. l just eliminated my att.net account.

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Yeah, that explains it. l just eliminated my att.net account. Bob

You can often recover the mails, but seriously it is a fair amount of work, so unless you have something you really want to keep leave it.