Mac Mail updated, lost all my emails, iPhone gets emails, iMac doesn't.

Hi
I booted my mac which seemed to do some kind of update (this was a few days ago) and mac mail was also updated. However it lost one of my email accounts during the process and all my sent items are gone. I can still find them using spotlight but they dont appear in mail anymore.
What is also strange is that my iPhone is collecting new emails from my pop account (set to leave emails on server) but the iMac never picks these emails up. Its like the iPhone is removing them from the server regardless of settings. I disabled the iphone from collecting email but the iMac doesnt get them still.
The account settings seem ok and I can send emails using these accounts.
So,
1. Why is my iMac not collecting pop based emails that the iPhone gets from the same account?
2. How to i put all the sent emails back into Mac Mail from the hard drive? And where are they?
Thanks for any help.

Hello and welcome to the Discussions.
From what level of OXS and Mail would it have been updating from?
In the Finder, open Home/Library/Mail -- is there only one POP account folder related to this account? Open this POP account folder -- do you see the Sent Message.mbox folder? Does it contain only one Info.plist file and one Messages folder?
Were it not for the failure to receive new messages, I would simply recommend to Rebuild the Sent mailbox, but I think more than that might be needed.
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