Mac Mail - items in Trash disappear

[mac_in_tosh]

I'm on Mac OS Monterey using the Mac Mail program to access AOL Mail. Until recently the procedure for deleting an email was as follows: highlight the email in Inbox - AOL, click on the trash can icon, at some later time go to Trash - AOL, highlight the email and click on the trash can icon. Now, as soon as I go to Trash - AOL some or all of the emails there disappear before I do anything.

What might have changed? Thanks.

 

[0128672]

I'm on Mac OS Monterey using the Mac Mail program to access AOL Mail. Until recently the procedure for deleting an email was as follows: highlight the email in Inbox - AOL, click on the trash can icon, at some later time go to Trash - AOL, highlight the email and click on the trash can icon. Now, as soon as I go to Trash - AOL some or all of the emails there disappear before I do anything.

What might have changed? Thanks.

What's your Trash mailbox setting for AOL (Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors)?

 

[mac_in_tosh]

What's your Trash mailbox setting for AOL (Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors)?

Erase deleted messages after one month.

 

[AZhappyjack]

I'm on Mac OS Monterey using the Mac Mail program to access AOL Mail. Until recently the procedure for deleting an email was as follows: highlight the email in Inbox - AOL, click on the trash can icon, at some later time go to Trash - AOL, highlight the email and click on the trash can icon. Now, as soon as I go to Trash - AOL some or all of the emails there disappear before I do anything.

What might have changed? Thanks.

Is it configured as IMAP? Is there some server-side rule that is running and deleting the emails before the client threshold is triggered?

 

[mac_in_tosh]

Is it configured as IMAP? Is there some server-side rule that is running and deleting the emails before the client threshold is triggered?

Yes, IMAP. If you mean some AOL Mail rule, I never changed anything there, for sure not recently when the behavior I am seeing started. What's odd is that when I click on the Trash - AOL mailbox, sometimes some of the emails there will disappear as I watch, sometimes none of them do. It's hard to imagine any rule that would distinguish emails that way.