Mail app stays in background until selected again

Upon initiating Mail, it most times (but not always) stays in the background when it should be the active window (sometimes even when only the Desktop is what is active). I can make it come to the foreground by clicking the dock icon again, but is there a setting I need to change to make it work as it used to? I cannot identify any variable that makes it work properly or not.
Thanks for any ideas...

Do you have any Mail plug-ins or system utilities that could interfere with Mail? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/StartupItems/
/Library/LaunchDaemons/
/Library/LaunchAgents/
/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/LaunchAgents/
~/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
To make accurately reporting this information easier, you may open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, type the following command (you can just copy it here and paste it in Terminal), and press <Return>. You can then copy the output of that command from Terminal and paste it in your reply to this post:
ls -1 /Library/StartupItems /Library/LaunchDaemons /Library/LaunchAgents /Library/InputManagers /Library/Mail/Bundles ~/Library/LaunchAgents ~/Library/InputManagers ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
webmail does not show any of the folders I have created in Mail.app
Have you created those mailboxes as “On My Mac” mailboxes or on the .Mac server? If you choose “On My Mac” from the Location popup menu in the New Mailbox dialog box, then it should be no surprise that the mailbox doesn’t appear on the server...
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

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