Activity hangs at "Connecting to Server". Connection Doctor says all OK!

Hello,
In Mail, I have 3 IMAP accounts active. From time to time, I see one of the accounts with a spinning wheel. If I look at the Activity window, there are a number of actions of which the first is:
{quote}
\[Mail Account Name\] Communicating with Server
Connecting to Server "+<mail server name>+"
{quote}
When I check the accessibility of the mail servers (SMTP and IMAP) via the Connection Doctor, everything is OK. So I tried to stop this entry by pressing the red button. The status changed to STOPPING, but the entry never disappears.
How can I let Mail reconnect to the server without restarting the application? I don't want to restart Mail since I also have a number of mails where the draft is still not saved. The Drafts folder is also on the IMAP account and if I can't reconnect, I loose the content of the mails I want to send.
Any help appreciated!
Ringo

Hi Roger, Thanks for your suggestions. Do you think in fact that I could delete the SMTP part of the mailservers. It appears that they are dedundant as it now says it used Icloud only?
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