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I've been having this issue for months - I would say at least 4-6 months. At one point I worked one-on-one with someone from Apple over the phone to try to fix it, but it was still never resolved.
I have our email set up so that on the left-hand side, the view shows the list of folders and then below that, a small "Mail Activity" window. While working on the computer - which is usually anywhere from 10-14 hours per day, I will notice when an email comes in that the Mail Activity window it will say "Incoming Messages 1 of 3" (or however many).
Well, sometimes 3 messages really do come, but other times, only 1 out of the 3 come or other times, none come. The Activity Window will say there are incoming messages, but I will get none.
This would be just a nuisance, except I think discovered I wasn't getting email messages from people - and that seemed to be random, I'd be emailing back and forth with a friend and she'd mention that I "skipped" an email, it would turn out that for some reason I didn't get one, even though I was getting the other ones from her at the time. And it was multiple people, from all different email addresses, etc.
I don't have any other email address other than the @mac.com one we have.
I did notice one day while just looking around (didn't move, delete or alter anything) that the number of email messages in /Users/myname/Library/Mail/Mac-myemail/INBOX.imapmbox/Messages is different than the number of messages actually in my "Inbox" - not sure if it should be the same?? Like right now, I have 1665 emails in my inbox, but in that 'Messages' folder, it has 1917 items.
Oh, and when I was working the Apple person, they did have me rebuild the mailbox several times.
Sorry for the long post, I REALLY appreciate any help anyone can give me???
Thank you!

Your ".mac" account has been set up to use IMAP for receiving emails. As someone who has been using IMAP with Mail for about 2 years I can tell you from experience that when it says you are receiving "1 of 3" emails, it doesn't mean you are receiving 3 NEW emails. It means that it is updating 3 emails. Sometimes it says receiving "1 of 645".
The truth is, the numbers don't really matter. That also goes for the number of messages in your inbox. Just because the number of messages don't match up doesn't mean the messages have been lost. They are just in other places, they may have been deleted, they could be in the sent folder, they could be in your drafts folder, junk folder, etc.
The tech person you spoke to was correct in what he did. The only numbers that should ever be matching up are the numbers at me.com with the numbers in your inbox. As long as those are the same, you are not losing emails.
However, anything is possible and I urge you to ask your friends to send you 10 or 20 "test emails" to make sure everything is running smoothly. If you are actually missing emails, that is an error beyond your control. That would be a problem on the servers at Apple and you would probably have to call or contact a Mobile Me representative.

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