Symbol-Icon on Mail Inbox

I posted this question earlier, but feel that I should try it again as the icon-symbol (see below) on my Mail Inbox, since I downloaded ML, is now appearing frequently. No one at Apple has recognized this icon. Several Community members have offered their advice (which I have appreciated very much), but now I am wondered if anyone else in the Community might recognize this symbol-icon, and what it might mean:
Again, many thanks to all.

Mende1 and captfred, thanks again for your replies. I now see that the password for the new iCloud account is not present with that account (only for my server). So I've added the iCloud password, and hope that that solves the matter. So far, it has!

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Hmmm… I went to school with somebody with a first name starting with D and last name of Balke; may I ask what city you're in?
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No, that's not the next step; way too drastic and huge time-waster. We need to find the problem and fix that instead, since the application is rarely the problem.
Did you install anything just before you noticed this problem, and if so, what exactly was it? Have you tried choosing View > Customize Toolbar… and restoring the default set of icons to see if that will fix the problem? If not, do that, then quit Mail and restart it to see if your changes stick and it works reliably.
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Hi - proceeding with next steps....
you need to do File > Get Info (⌘I) on it and
change the name there. Otherwise, the Finder just
hides the extension from your view instead of
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Note, however, that the real problem could be the
size of the mbox file within the
INBOX.mbox package, which you haven’t
reported.
You're right - because I didn't know the size (or more precisely, didn't know how to tell the size). But I just figured out I should do Command I, and so acc. to that, the size of < .mbox > (in the newly-renamed INBOX folder, the old INBOX.mbox now on my desktop) is 1.4MB. Just in case this info is needed, the size of the < Incoming_Mail > file in the folder is 52.6MB, and the size of the whole folder is 54.5MB.
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I figured as much.
At the very least, you could use a text editor to look at the
contents of the mbox file where your messages
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If that means clicking directly on those files, I did, and it read like, well, a lot of programming language that I don't understand, though I did see some recognizable text interspersed throughout.
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OK - thanks for clearing that up.
As I've been writing this, I check back to the Import command - which once I clicked "Okay" to the Error message, I assumed would quit. But in fact, its wheel still spinning, I clicked on the forward arrow, and lo and behold, the mbox dumped all its contents into my current Mail program! When the download was completed, I got a message saying there'd be an "mbox" folder in the "On Your Mac" mailbox - which oddly enough, I did not see (it used to be there but is no longer visible, if at all existent). No matter - there is now an "Import" mailbox listed amongst all the others, and in that were two sub-mailboxes: "Incoming Mail" -- empty; and "mbox," full with everything I'd been looking for.
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Symbol-Icon on Mail Inbox

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