Mail only retrieving one email at a time

Short history behind the problem:
About a month ago my Mac stopped retrieving new email completely.  Re-starting, re-building, etc. did nothing.  Using 'Get account info' I could see that the last email it thought was on the Gmail server looked a bit odd - no subject, etc.  After deleting that in Gmail I could then get new mail.
But now, even though I can see that there are about a dozen new emails on Gmail, the Mac only downloads one at a time.  Therefore at maximum 'get' speed that takes 12 minutes.
Interestingly, 'Get account info' doesn't show the latest emails, but Mail does get them - just one at a time.
Anyone got any ideas on this?
Thanks,
Richard

I might have found the solution for this.
Right-clicking on Inbox and selecting 'Get Account Info' I could see quite a few 0 size emails left on the server.  After selecting these and clicking 'Remove from server' it solved the problem - Mail now downloads many emails at once :-)
Hope this helps anyone who gets this problem too.
Richard

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