Can't read Apple Mail e-mail

Every time I try to access a particular e-mail account, I get the following error message in the base of the e-mail message:
has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it.
I've tried rebuilding the e-mail account. Didn't work. Tried deleting all mail and account. Exit Apple Mail, and add new account, still happens. This does not happen with any other e-mail account, and I have like 10 of them.
Any suggestions? This is really fustrating, as it does not happen on my Macbook Pro, only MacPro unit.
Help!!!!

Deleting a mail account causes all your mail stored in that account’s mailboxes to be deleted as well (and Mail warned you that this would happen). If you deleted the account, you should not even get the “has not been downloaded from the server” error message. If you see that, it has to be because you did something else in addition to deleting the account, such as setting up the same account twice before deleting it. More info, please.
How many mail accounts exactly do you have in Mail > Preferences > Accounts and what type are they (POP, IMAP, .Mac)?
Report the names of the files and folders present at the first level of the ~/Library/Mail/ folder in the Finder.
In order to post the exact file names and avoid typing mistakes, proceed as follows. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. With that folder open, if you’re looking at it in View > as List mode, first collapse any expanded folders so that the Finder only shows the files and folders at the first level of ~/Library/Mail/. Now, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post.
Before actually posting that information, edit it so that the file/folder names do not reveal any details you should keep private, e.g. replace any real username with “username” to hide your real email address. Other than that, report the file/folder names as accurately as possible.
Which of the account folders is supposed to be the one associated with the account that has the problem? How many .emlx files do its mailboxes contain? How many messages would you expect to be there?
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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