Reasons IMAP email account might not show emails?

I'm working with an IMAP email account (provided by Network Solutions) and while Mail seems to be accepting all of the account information (username, login, etc.), nothing is showing up in the inbox.  Outbound works fine, but inbound is empty.  When I check the webmail interface, there is mail in the inbox... it is just not showing up in Apple Mail.
Any ideas?

I've been having these same symptoms for some time now:
- Standard IMAP account
- iPhone Mail / iPad Mail / OSX Sparrow / iPhone Sparrow / Thunderbird / Web interface all see messages in the inbox
- Apple Mail app does not see any messages
I found a solution that works for me.  Look through all the folders in your IMAP account.  You should have only one INBOX folder, the main one.  If you have any others called "Inbox", move the mail out of them and delete the folders.  Beware that you are deleting the phantom Inbox folders and not the real one.  This solved the issue for me.  For instance I had a folder called "Inbox.Trash" that was separate to the main INBOX folder.
I had to use OSX Sparrow to do this maintenance, I couldn't find any other tool that would give me such control over the folder structure.  Preferences -> Organise -> Folders
Hope this helps.
Alex.

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