Mail only downloads one mail at a time from Gmail

I have a gmail email account and read it using Apple Mail.
This used to work fine: every time I connected, all my mails were downloaded in one go. Recently, something has changed (all my settings are the same) and now only one mail is downloaded at a time. Since the minimum time setting to 'check new mail' in Apple Mail is once per minute, this means one mail per minute, or clicking manually for an hour in order to download over 60 new emails.
Any ideas how I can download all my mails whenever I access the internet? I have tried on different laptops (Powerbook and MacBookPro) and different versions of Mail and the problem persists. There are no obvious settings in either Gmail or Apple Mail preferences to address this.
Thanks.
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During the interval since my first post, I tested a little with my Gmail account, which I do not use extensively. I rapidly sent two messages from other accounts to my Gmail account, and they both showed up at the next automatic checking for new mail. Thus I conclude it should work from the Gmail end of things.
Let me suggest that you quit Mail, open Home/Library/Mail/the Gmail account folder, and find and delete the file named MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2, and then relaunch Mail. This is a file in each account folder that with normal POP accounts prevents downloading any message left on a POP server more than once. Since Gmail does not really work like a normal POP in many ways, even though allowing POP access, this file would not normally play a very big role. But in this case it might have some corruption that is impacting this issue. With a normal POP account removing this file would cause any messages left on the server to again download, but with the way Gmail works, this will not happen, but may clear up something.
I tested this before posting this suggestion, and a new MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2 file was created as would be expected with any POP account, once any new message was downloaded. Your one minute interval may have not allowed enough time for this file to be updated on some occasion, and may have led to its corruption.
Keep me posted.
Ernie

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