So I found the cause of my mysterious email problem. I promptly filed a bug report (usability suggestion), which can be seen here.

The weird thing is, this went on for something like 2 months before I started to notice. I got most of my mail but noticed that some started slipping through. Having cut it off at the source, I found that Evolution was the source of my misery. Hopefully this will improve the quality of the Gentoo desktop.

By the way, I’m using the 2.1 upgrade to my WordPress install, and I have to admit that it is rather nice. They FINALLY after many complaints from literally everyone, drafts are automatically saved similar to how GMail and Outlook save email drafts. If you haven’t upgraded yet, I recommend you do so. Also, go vote for the Automatic Plugin Install suggestion.