Missing messages from POP account

Greetings.
All the mesages from my POP account folders are missing/invisible (Inbox, Sent, Trash). The messages exist in the ~/Library/Mail folder, and at the top of the Mail application window states "Inbox (0 messages, 50 unread)".
I've tried all the fixes that David Gimeno Gost has suggested in this forum to other users experiencing similar problems, (e.g., rebuilding the index, reimporting the mailboxes, converting to from elmx mbox and importing, reinstalling the Mail application) all to no avail.
Any advice much appreciated.
David

Hello David.
Some of the "fixes" you seem to have already tried might or might not be appropriate for your problem, and it could very well be that you've made things worse. In particular, what did you do to reinstall Mail? I rarely recommend doing that. Did you also reinstall the Combo Update afterwards?
Verify/repair your disk first (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
Now, in the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. With that folder open, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post, to let me see the names of the files and folders present at the root level of the Mail folder.
Before actually posting that information, you may edit it so that the file/folder names do not reveal any details you wish to keep private, e.g. you may replace any real username with "username" if you wish; similarly, you may disguise any domain names you don't want to be revealed. Try to be consistent in how you disguise those details, though, as we may need to refer to them in subsequent posts.
Finally, locate the account folders within ~/Library/Mail/ -- their name begins with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. For each account folder, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user's home folder.

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