Deleted emails are returning

Deleted emails are returning. It's like watching "Groundhog Day" every time LOL!

I'm running a 2021 MacBook Air M1, latest OS is 12.4. It's started a couple weeks ago. Searching this forum, I learned about the "Safe Mode" tip. First, it took a few attempts to make this machine enter SafeMode for, whatever, reasons. Eventually, I did get there. Ok, so going through the motions the deleted emails did stop loading, however, only for a couple days, UGH!

My gut tells me this is a "bug" and "Tim Apple" (LOL) has to intervene and get this solved.

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Posted on Jun 14, 2022 4:39 AM

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John Galt

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Posted on Jun 14, 2022 10:25 AM

Rebuild the affected Mailbox, or all Mailboxes, according to Rebuild mailboxes in Mail on Mac - Apple Support. You can rebuild any Mailbox including Trash.

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John Galt

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Jun 14, 2022 10:25 AM in response to 65Benly

Rebuild the affected Mailbox, or all Mailboxes, according to Rebuild mailboxes in Mail on Mac - Apple Support. You can rebuild any Mailbox including Trash.

John Galt

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Jun 14, 2022 10:41 AM in response to 65Benly

Nothing obvious will happen. You might (for example) see messages disappear and reappear, but if you blink you'll miss it.

If you're curious you can use the Activity window:

Window menu > Activity

65Benly Author

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Jun 14, 2022 10:44 AM in response to 65Benly

Thanks John,

You given me good learning stuff.

65Benly Author

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Jun 14, 2022 10:35 AM in response to 65Benly

Thanks for the reply. I followed the directions to rebuild. I selected "rebuild" and there was no indication of any actions taking place. Should there be? What are the indications, the offending mailbox was, indeed rebuilt?

65Benly Author

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Jun 20, 2022 6:20 PM in response to 65Benly

Not so fast! The emails I delete during any given session do return. They will not return after I perform the reboot to Safe Mode, then perform a "Rebuild". The whole process repeats after each Safe mode and Rebuild routine. It's getting to be exhaustive.

This a bug of some type as it's only started recently after one or two of the last Apple updates.

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