Checking Mail indicator

What happened to the "Checking Mail" revolving indicator that was on the upper left in mail when the check mail tab is selected?
Mine is totally gone. Only appears when outgoing mail is sent.
No indication that anything is going on except for the audible ding indicates it's finished looking. The Mac should be better at this than the PC; at least the pc shows a operations indicator bar on screen.
Thanks

I'm not sure which spinning gears you mean. Mine does a little ticker thing that I think of as a clock - the same ticker that's displayed when restarting the computer and such. It only does it when it's taking more than a second or two to check for mail. Could that be why you don't see it? Or do you mean something else by gear?

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