For some time now, it receives the mail, but when the process completes I have nothing in my inbox. It worked just peachy for a long time, now this all of the sudden. I worry it is being intercepted somehow, how can I find out what is going on? I am an extreme newb, patience plz!

take a look in the trash or junk folder

, ok maybe not that much of a newb :P
Anyhow, I checked em, nadda thing.

apt-get remove --purge evolution

re-installed but is still showing old messages..
anyhow, no mail yet, though I have low expectations to actually receive it when i do.

I'm happy to report, I am now receiving mail.
Thanks for letting me clutter your message board.
More to come, I promise

Oh wait,.
Where could I find all the emails I received but didn't recieve?
any help thanks!~

if you use fetchmail, take a look in /var/spool/mail or /home/user/mail
do you use by any chance procmail, or a forward rule anywhere?

I removed all the rules when the problem started. i don't know what procmail is.
In var/spool/mail all I find is rkhunter reports.

Lots of this:

To: root@infowarmachine
Message-Id: <E1LHeAj-000411-QW@infowarmachine>
From: root <root@infowarmachine>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:58:09 -0500

Warning: Suspicious files found in /dev:
/dev/shm/pulse-shm-143288949: data
Warning: Hidden directory found: /etc/.java
Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.static
Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.udev
Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.initramfs