Emails are appearing and disappearing from Mail

Last week I started noticing weird behavior with Mail. Emails would appear in my inbox and then disappear almost immediately.
I've got a number of different IMAP accounts set up - this is just happening on one account.
They're not going into any other box - I've checked Junk, Trash, etc - they just disappear. They don't turn up using search. There aren't any rules acting on them either.
I run three different machines - all on 10.6.7 - and this is happening on all of them.
If I use webmail, I can access all of the emails ok so they're still on the server.
Searching this site, it looks like there are a few people who've been having similar problems recently but there weren't any solid solutions.

When you say they disappear, do they reappear again? I'm wondering if this is happening as your contacts are syncing with the service you are syncing to, as in Yahoo Groups. I'm not sure how Yahoo Groups works, but if this is where you are saving them, I wonder if you get disconnected from the Yahoo server momentarily, they would disappear. This is the same way Exchange contacts are. If you get disconnected from the Exchange server, you cannot access contacts.

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