Email periodically disappears from POP account

It seems as though some other people are having the same problem but, in searching the discussion group, I couldn't find any answer for how to solve it.
Every now and again, for what appears to be no reason - eg not after a sync, not on any schedule, etc. - the email I have downloaded from the POP server will just disappear on my iPad. I've tried to isolate if it only occurs when there are a lot of emails in my inbox but haven't been able to do so since it seems to be a totally sporadic occurence.
If anybody's figured out why this occurs, I'd sure appreciate an answer.
Thanks.

try rebuilding the entire mail index. quit mail and move the file homedirectory/library/mail/Envelope Index to the desktop. start mail and let it import (that means reindex). see if the messages stay deleted now.

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The mail isn't necessarily being deleted, just disappearing. Did you check in the Trash for Mail to see if it's been moved there?
If it's not in the Trash:
Quit Mail.
Go to Home/Library/Mail and delete the Envelope Index file(s).
Restart Mail and wait for it to rebuilt the index, then see if the disappearing Mail reappears. If so, problem solved.
If it doesn't reappear and the problem continues, then I suspect your Mail preferences file is corrupt, in which case you need to do this:
Quit Mail.
Go to Home/Library/Preferences and delete the com.apple.mail.plist file.
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Subject: Problem receiving mail from POP account
I have been using Mail 1.3.11 for quite some time and never had any problem with it until recently, when I suddenly stopped reliably receiving new mail from my POP account. What happens now is that each time Mail checks for new mail on the server, it says "finding unseen messages" and imports one or two (but usually no) new messages, then it quits searching, even though there are hundreds of new messages on the server. When it does import new messages, it will give a "getting message 1 out of 261" (or some such large number) message, then quit once it has downloaded a very few.
I have tried fixing the problem by completely uninstalling Mail (by moving the application and the mail folders from User-Library, User-Library-Chaches, and User-Library-Scripts, along with the com.apple.mail.plist file from User-Library-Preferences all to another disk) and reinstalling it with a new account, but the problem persists.
I know that this is not a problem with the mail server because I have tried accessing this account with other mail clients and they work just fine, but I'd really rather not switch from Mail since it has so many features that I feel I can't do without.
iMac 600 G3 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

This sounds like a problem with the account's Inbox mailbox.
Quit Mail first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail > this account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account) > INBOX.mbox.
Move the INBOX.mbox to the Desktop.
When re-launching Mail, a new (and empty) INBOX.mbox will be created automatically by Mail within the account named folder.

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