My mac mail quit displaying new email.

Sunday afternoon my 'Mail Activity' window indicated I had new email.  Nothing displayed in my inbox.  I have two mac systems and both are having the same problem.  I am getting my mail on my iPhone and via Yahoo mail without issues.  I have an SBCglobal.net account as part of my phone/dsl service.  My wife's account works fine.  Settings are all the same, rebooting doesn't help.  The message count appears in the 'Mail Activity' window, the tone sounds indicating mail is downloading, but never appears anywhere.

I had the same issue, after a day I have realize that I wasnt getting any new mail. I click on everything to figure it out and try this out:
-Go to Trash on the left.
-Its gonna show: -On my Mac
                         -Att/Yahoo (depends on your email provider)
-Click on: Att/Yahoo if you have that option.
and it will show a message : to go Online, because probably you switch it to offline which that was my case and didnt realize.
and Done, you will see you will getting mail normally.

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