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Inbox automatically receiving many previously deleted received messages and not able to delete them.

guyyyy1 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:21:58 GMT

My inbox started to receive what turned out to be over 4000 previously received and deleted emails. I couldn't stop this download. When I eventually tried to delete them in tranches of about 30 they did delete OK. However, after about 300 had been deleted the deletes would not complete and a message appeared saying - "The message could not be moved to Deleted because writing to folder failed. To gain disk space from the file menu first choose Empty Deleted and chose Compact Folders, and then try again". I have done this but nothing has changed. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Re: Inbox automatically receiving many previously deleted received messages and not able to delete t

Townman — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:10:27 GMT

Are you are using a POP3 client?

Such issues are a POP3 client index issue, not a server issue. These issues do not happen with an IMAP client.

Re: Inbox automatically receiving many previously deleted received messages and not able to delete t

chriwest — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:54:22 GMT

I am having a similar problem (using IMAP account). I ma getting thousands of 'Mail delivery failed, return to sender' meassages that I delete from my Deleted Messages box but they keep coming back in my message box. Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Inbox automatically receiving many previously deleted received messages and not able to delete t

plusnettony — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:25:24 GMT

@chriwest wrote:

I am having a similar problem (using IMAP account). I ma getting thousands of 'Mail delivery failed, return to sender'

See my post on the other thread.