MacBook hogging Mail messages

A colleague who has a MacBook recently bought an iMac, and has them both in the same house. When she checks her Mail messages on the iMac there are few, if any. Then she switches on the MacBook and Mail downloads a whole lot of messages that were waiting on the server. She says settings (including incoming mail server) are identical on both computers. She's asked me for advice, and I honestly don't know where the problem lies. This is a POP email address we're talking about, not .Mac. She's using broadband, and has the MacBook on Airport, the desktop iMac connected via ethernet cable. Anyone got any ideas? Ta.

Thanks for that. I'll check tomorrow with her. Though isn't it strange that the iMac is first online, so to speak, and downloads few messages, and the MacBook is second online and downloads the bulk of her messages?

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