Infrequent missing emails in Mail App

I am having one to two emails a day not show up in my Mail App on my iMac running Mavericks. This is a gmail address and these emails in question are there if I go to my google account and login. I even see them on my Android phone with a Gmail account. I am getting on average 10-15 emails sent to this Gmail address daily that come through perfectly, just not getting them all. I ideas what could be wrong?

I was having the same issue with my gmail account. I was scouring around last night trying to find an answer and I saw a suggestion to disable the account in mail, quit mail, restart it and enable the account again. Since then all my emails are coming in regularly again. Not sure if it will work for you but it's worth a try. I hope this helps. I'm runing mail version 7.1 and I have updated maverics to 10.9.1.
To enable/disable the accounts you need to do the following in mail.
Go to Preferences -> Accounts Tab -> uncheck the box that says "Enable this account"

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