Mail doesn't do "Get Mail" on opening

Ever since I installed Snow Leopard 10.6.4, my Mail program no longer checks for new mail on opening. I have to click on 'Get Mail'. How can I restore the automatic function for getting new mail? Thanks.

My mail takes about 15 secs after start up to check the first time. You might want to check your Mail>Preferences>General Tab>Check for mail every ........
to see if it's appropriate. Mine is set to 5 minutes.
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I'm lucky enough to have two Macs running OS X 10.9 next to each other, both using the same network, and sharing a common Exchange mail server. My corporate machine (an first gen' Aluminium iMac) has both Outlook and Mail installed. My personal machine (a 13" MacBook Air) has only Mail installed.
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thanks for replying!
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When sending from a mac account to the pc, it seems to send fine, and it moves to the sent items, but nothing appear in the PC inbox.
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Open Disk Utility and Repair disk permissions on the First Aid tab.
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G'day,
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