Why is Mail not picking up some Virgin/Blueyonder messages?

I use the Mail app (6.6) on my desktop Mini (10.8.5) to collect emails from six accounts, all POP.
Three of those are Virgin Media accounts with @blueyonder.co.uk addresses: two mine and one my wife’s.
The other day, we noticed that an incoming message sent to my wife’s address and one of mine (both in the To line - not Cc’d or Bcc’d) had only arrived at my wife’s account in Mail. I checked, and both were there in each of the relevant Virgin webmail inboxes, but only my wife’s had been picked up by Mail.
I sent a test mail from a gmail account with the same arrangement: wife’s address first in the To line, mine second; same result. Tried another with it the other way around: my address first in the To line, my wife’s second; and the same result: my wife’s picked up by Mail, mine not.
I can see no differences in how the accounts are set up in Mail. I’m mystified. Can anyone help?

OK, let me put it another way. Does anyone know of any problems that might arise if a Blueyonder-addressed email incoming to Virgin Media (UK) has been addressed to more than one recipient in the To line? Specifically, a problem that might stop Mail app from picking up that email?

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