Apple mail keeps ‘pinging'

Today, Mail keeps pinging and saying in the bottom left corner that 'new message downloading' However, it does not appear in the inbox or anywhere else.
Looking directly at BT Yahoo via the web I can see one message that did get down to Mail and one that just will not.
I've look through all the menus, including trying 'get new mail' and 'synchronise' to no avail.
Any ideas?