I am only getting some emails in Mail app

I have two computers, my iMac and an XP running Outlook. Both have the same settings to retrieve email from my hosting service.
I am only getting some email to my iMac/Mail app. That is, I can log onto my web server and see eMails marked as unread that won't download and others that do download.
All messages come to my XP / Outlook box.
I have been on with my hosting tech support and everything is fine from their side, so I assume it must be something with Mail.
Please help, this is my first week in the Apple world after being a windows user for over 15 years.
Thanks!

Hello Paul.
Be carefull when using multiple mail clients on a single POP account, that's not the way POP was designed.
Consider using IMAP instead, or be carefull with the settings of each of your email client, especially concerning the deletion policy.
Most email client can be configured to delete message from the server immediatly, after a period of time, or never.
What could happen is Outlook does retrieve mail fine, then deletes them.
When Mail comes to get the mail, it only gets the one arrived after the last Outlook retrieve, but Mail by default keeps message on the server for something like 7 days, that's why Outlook can then retrieve all messages the next time it checks your POP account, but because it deletes them all, Mail is missing some of them.
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