Mail not displaying messages from self as Unread

Mails that I send to myself have suddenly stopped showing up as automatically unread in the inbox. Neither does the dock icon for Mail show the red circle indicating a new mail. Similarly with Ical mails alerts to me. Any clue which setting has got messed up?

Once upon a time, with POP access at least, addressing a Gmail message to self would not be presented for download, and only available on the server view via browser. I can't remember when or if I tested IMAP access.
Just now I sent a test, and on my two Macs it is presented as Read on both.
Gmail is neither pure IMAP nor pure POP, and it can be weird.
Ernie
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