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I use Mail for all of my gmail accounts. Recently I noticed that there were no new messages appearing in the Inbox for my principle, general purpose gmail account. Furthermore, the circular array of 'rotating' grey rectangles at the right hand side of the mailboxes pane is continuously active - I understand this to mean that mail is being 'received'.
There is certainly activity and Mail is successfully logging in to the gmail mail server, but no new messages are appearing in the Inbox.
I have a large number of rules on this Mailbox, but I have deactivated the rules - there is no discernible difference, and I have checked in the local mailboxes that these rules were moving messages to - no new messages there either.
Because the source is a gmail account, I thought to simply delete the account from Mail and start again, but it appears that I cannot even do that. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Regards.
Neil

I thought to simply delete the account from Mail and start again, *but it appears that I cannot even do that.*
Why not? What is stopping you from doing so?
Try the Mail "rebuild" setting - Mail/Mailbox/Rebuild
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