Mail - Mail Activity Counts Upwards But No New Emails Arrive

This is really annoying me...
Since Leopard, Mail keeps going to one of my email addresses and continues to count upwards saying 'Incoming Messages' above the progression bar. I have to sometimes leave it on overnight for it to resolve. During the day sometimes emails come in fine but most of the time it happily just sits there saying there are incoming messages but there are not...
Any ideas?

Hi,
There's already one long topic about this -- see:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1199018&tstart=50
But nothing has been resolved. I assume you have checked the volume for the alerts, which is separate from master volume?
Ernie

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