Inbox downloading non-existent emails endlessly

A few days ago the red "unread mail" counter began rising and rising without downloading any messages. The loading spiral next to the "Inbox" indicates that it thinks it's downloading, and it does not stop. The number began at 300 (I keep a lot of unread mail in my inbox), but is now at approximately 800 and only stops when I close the program. This mail is not showing up in my inbox, and I am not a popular enough person to make so many messages an actual possibility.
Along with the endless non-existent emails, the actual email that I should be getting is not showing up.
I have tried Rebuilding my mailbox a couple of times and have deleted the "MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2," but these have not worked.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Hi Cathy, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup

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