Why won't my mail access new mail?

All of a sudden everything changed! The "access new mail" icon is dimmed. It hasn't gotten new mail for two days. All my mail IS on my Iphone, but I want to view it on my IMac! The mail doesn't open when I click the Icon; just the toolbar. Most of the options for opening my mail are dimmed. "Open my favorite mailbox" does open the mailbox, but it is formatted differently. The message doesn't show in the bottom panel. Why?
I have ICloud and Google. I'm confused about which should be marked as the primary account. Also, exactly what IS the server? Is that the WiFi I am using?
Help?

Unfortunately, I emptied the trash [ thinking that it may still be counted even though it was trash]. I don't recall of trashing anything critical. When I moved some files to a CD, I was told that the CD was now full, so I dragged several files back to my home folder with plans to move them to another CD later. When I tried to do that, I found that those files were now an alias and I can't find the originals. I must have put them in the trash but I wouldn't intentionally do that. I have some backup ( Retrospect and Mozy) so I'm hoping to recover them.
My mail has been working just fine. My home folder was much larger than I thought @ 2.99GB before I reduced it to the present 853.2 MB. I had put in a lot of family photos and that probably started the problem. I'm posting a possible solution offered several years ago to Navarro by Mulder. Any thoughts on this approach? I'm reluctant to try it. -- thanks for your help -- Monty
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Go to Home/Library/Mail and move that folder to your Desktop. Then start Mail and a new mail folder with the accounts that already exist will be created. The new mailboxes will be empty unless there's mail you haven't retrieved still on the server.
If mail functions correctly, you can then use the Import Mailboxes feature to import selected mailboxes or manually replace mailboxes from the old Mail folder one at a time to find which mailbox was causing the problem.
Mulder
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