Mail recovery

First, I love my MBP. I had no problems setting up the mail account, but five months ago it started continuously recovering a deleted e-mail message. The mail account is a Gmail account. There is a lengthy delay in sending emails and I haven't received an email on the MBP for five months. I can log directly into the GMAIL website and get my messages each day. Any ideas? Thanks for any suggestions.

Hi AKazak, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Don't create a new account!
In ~/Library/Mail (replace with your copy)
Also replace ~/Library/Preferences/ com.apple.mail.plist *with your backup. This is a very important file which contains all email account settings and general mail preferences.
Then launch Mail. If it asks you to import anything, decline.
EDIT: Or as Allan said, didn't see the post as I was editing...
-mj
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