Constant notifications about unread Mail messages

Hi everyone,
Using Apple Mail on a 2010 iMac, OS X 10.9.5.
I have been getting constantly repeating notifications about unread mails. Sometimes I receive an email which I want to deal with later, so after reading it I mark it as unread. The problem is that I then start getting notifications in the top right of my screen as if the message I just flagged as unread was a new incoming message. I wouldn't care if it just did it once, but it does it every minute or two! Needless to say this is a little annoying
I'm not sure if this is a Mail problem, or a Mavericks problem. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

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