Mail will not receive messages

Shortly after installing Security Update 2011-005, Mail stopped receiving messages on all three of my accounts (two Gmail IMAP accounts and one Microsoft Exchange 2007 account).
Mail will seemingly download the messages and show progress in the lower left display panel as usual, but even though it appears as though the messages were successfully downloaded they never appear in my inbox.
I've checked all the account settings, but nothing seems to be wrong..
Please help!
Thanks in advance,
Naomi

I would recommend removing all three account, although you could probably do it one account at time, and then adding them back. Since the messages for all three account reside on the server, nothing will be lost. With the setting to Keep copies for Offline viewing, it will take a good bit of time for all messages to again download to the computer, so I would change to not keep copies for Offline viewing -- you can always change that later.
The problem may simply be with indexing the mailboxes to display these messages, and this will correct that, if so.
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1. Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Mail/Bundles
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