Imap email on iOS device but on on osx device

I've recently noticed that emails are coming though to my ios devices but not always to my Macs.
Is there any reason why this would be?
All accounts are setup as IMAP accounts, I can view the emails on the server (and the ios devices), so why aren't they displaying on my Macs?
Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Sorry I hadn't updated that in a while. I am completely up to date on all pieces of equipment. IOS6 & OSX 10.8.2.
I had a play around with the mail server last night and if I restart the mail server it seems to re-serve the emails.
Obviously its completely impractical to restart the server every time i need to get new email.
I've opened the "Activity Monitor" in mail and that just seems to be fetching headers, updating cache, fetching new mail, connecting to server and syncing with server. These just seem to be trying to do something but not doing a lot.
I've tried taking all accounts offline and then putting them online again, no change
I've tried sychronizing all accounts, no change
I've tried removing the caches, no change
One of the reasons i noticed it was because i went from receiving 100's of emails a day to probably around 10!
I have 7 imap accounts setup.

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