IPhone email mystery

Every few days, one of the email accounts on my wife's iPhone starts giving "cannot connect to server" messages, and stops functioning. Deleting the account and recreating it always solves the problem. It's an IMAP account with a Network Solutions hosted domain. iPhone 4, OS 6 (although this was happening in OS 5 as well).
Any thoughts as to what might be going on here?
David Wolfson

I get that occasionally, usually in a weak signal area - I aways assumed that the attempt timed out and the error message was erroneous.  Usually, a few minutes later it seems to work ok for me. 

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