Annoying - Mail goes offline for no particular reason

I've seen enough in these postings to know that there is a bug in Mail. My situation is that I have four e-mail accounts that come into Mail through one cable provider. I constantly have problems with the little triangles saying "Offline". I used to think that there was a conflict with Entourage (which I use for a fifth work account) but now it is happening when I don't have Entourage running. I can quit Mail and re-open that fixes it for awhile. SOmetimes it doesn't happen for three days, and then sometimes four times in an hour (like today which is why I'm writing this)
I do have a wireless connection. Could that be part of it?
THanks
PB G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I am having a recent spate of the same activity... am running OS 10.3.9 and Mail 1.3.11. I too am connecting via a wireless Lynksys router on an open network which has NOT been changed in any way.
First time this arose arose was just 4 days ago, and what seemed to 'fix' it for a time was to take mailboxes offline (even though Mail indicated they were all still online) and then go back online again.
Then two days ago, and doing that fix only worked after several attempts over a period of hours.
Today, it is resisting all attempts.
When I do a mail check, the mail client's 'progress area' (the grey horizontal band) quickly reports connecting to the server, or even the authenticating step, but then stops and 'chimes' (that there is no new mail found). Checking webmail, of course, I see tons of mail waiting for me to come collect it.
I wonder if we have a bug here, given our synchronistic experience of symptoms. Also wondering if Mail is mad at me for having so much stuff in there...

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