Phantom new mail!

Mail says there is new mail but when I look in my mailbox, I find no new mail there!
I have quit and re-opened the application several time but it always says there is "1 new mail" when there is none!
Does anyone know what's happening?

Greetngs,
If Mail says there is 1 new message but you don't see it, then it's not really there. Your Mail index could be corrupt, so try rebuilding it like this:
1. Quit Mail
2. Go to Home/Library/Mail and delete the Envelope Index file.
3. Restart Mail and wait for it to rebuilt the index, then check to see if the problem remains. If it does, select all the messages in your Inbox, mark them as Read from the Message menu, then quit mail and restart it again.

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These 'phantom' blank emails appear to be the root of the problem
as once they are manually removed from our server-side inbox
(either through Apple Mail's 'Get Info' / 'Remove from Server' function,
or via our ISPs webmail facility), the email starts picking up mail
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other than clicking 'Get Mail'. Until they are removed, Apple Mail
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