Mail won't appear in inbox

Hello,
I have an issue with mail.
I've upgreated to mountain Lion yesterday and I've decided to give a try to Icloud.
But eversince I have a problem with mail.
The issue is that when I get an email, it doesn't appear.
I have the sound but the little red number doesn't appear on the Mail icone and the email doesn't go in the inbox.
It goes in an other file in Mail (for exemple in my case : Gmail - Gmail - All Mail)
So I tried to rebuild the mailboxes. But it didn't work.
I tried that technic (http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/answers/how_to_clean_up_and_rebuild_apple_mail_da ta/) It didn't work.
I don't know where the problem come from. Is it from mountain Lion? Is it from the cloud?
I did a TimeMachine just before instaling MLion.
Thank you in advance for you help !
Art.

Problem solved.
I had a incompatibilty with a AntiSpam plug in into the rules.
I removed it and now it works just fine.

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