Sorry about the lack system data. The rebuild function did the trick  And OS 
10.7.5 and Mail is 5.3
the version that "came in the box"

Bill


On 19/02/2014, at 5:57 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> 
> You don't mention what version of Mail or OS X.
> You could try either or both the below:
> 
> * Mail has a feature that will show or hide your deleted messages. 
> Once deleted, the message turns grey and will come up in your searches and 
> will not go to the trash all of the time. 
> Go to View/Hide Deleted Messages to get rid of them. 
> Go to View/Show Deleted Messages to show the deleted messages. 
> If you want them gone forever in both views, go to Mailbox/Erase Deleted 
> Messages then select either All Accounts or just the mailbox you want deleted 
> permanently.
> ----
> 
> *If these messages are all in the Inbox mailbox
> Click on Inbox in Left column.
> In Menu bar - Go to "Mailboxā€¯ >  Rebuild
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
> 
> 
> On 19 Feb 2014, at 12:24 pm, Bill Parker <ren...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I have started to experience a phenomena where deleting read emails has no 
>> effect.  The headers remain and the message is just a grey blank.
>> 
>> Turning off Mail does it, but is there something I am missing?
>> 
>> The culprit emails are usually sent from blog sites in strings.
>> 
>> Bill
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