Deleted email not hitting trash . Where is it going

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I have imac 2021 with m1. Deleted emails not going to trash folder. Mail account is set up as POP.
 
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2021 iMac 24" M1 512/16/8/8 Sonoma. 2013 iMac 20.5" 3.1 i7 16GB Catalina. iPhone 13
Have you looked in any of the other folders?
 
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Can you post it here, just for the next person who has the same issue?
 
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The problem was with my email account. It was set up as POP. I had to reconfigure the account to imap.
 
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Silver M1 iMac 512/16/8/8 macOS 11.6
WITH POP it should just go to the Bin.
 
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Currently, if you're running Big Sur and if you have a POP mail account, deleted mail does NOT go to the Trash folder in Mail on your Mac. It's just deleted locally. However, if you access the POP server via the WEB you'll see it there in the Trash folder on the server (if you haven't chosen otherwise).

With IMAP, the server Trash folder is echoed on your Mac, which is why you now see your Trashed email.
 

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