Mail Upgrade message in Mavericks won't go away

Have upgraded from 10.8 to 10.9 Mavericks on my Macbook Pro, everything pretty much went fine, except for a problem with Mail.
Everytime I open it, I get the below screenshot, saying "Welcome to Mail. To use the new features in Mail, your Mail messages need to be downloaded to this computer...."
If I click continue, I get a "bing" sound and then my Mail opens up, but I get the same message each time I open Mail.
Annoying.

I don't get the message anymore by doing the following:
Try to repair disk permissions first.
If your mail is also on a server and provided that you have a backup of your rules, signatures, etc, you can try the following:
go to ~/Library/Mail
Delete all contents of the Mail folder. Don't delete the Mail folder.
Go to ~/Library/Preferences
Delete the file com.apple.mail.plist
The above actions will delete all local mail and reset the app completely! If you don't have a backup of your mail don't follow these actions!

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