Disappearing emails in Mail

I have been having a very weird problem with mail since the last few weeks. I pop my email from gmail and I have usual folders and some basic rules.
The new mails (as well as some read ones) keep disappearing from the Inbox. But they showup again when I open it later. I have not been able to figure out when it decides to show some mails and when it does not. So I would download some 50 mails, it will show only 10 new ones. But after many hours or even days it suddenly show the remaining 40 mails and again they keep disappearing.
In this state, even my sent mails act funny. They just do not seem to go out, even though it says sent and suddenly one day I see week long send mails stacked up in the outbox.
I never had this problem before, but mail just started doing the last few weeks.
Any idea whats wrong and what could be the solution to this ?

Try rebuilding your Mail index:
1. Quit Mail if it's running.
2. Go to ~/Library/Mail and delete the Envelope Index file.
3. Restart Mail and wait for it to import your existing messages. When finished, check to see if your disappearing emails are back to stay.
Mulder

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