Apple Mail drops accounts regularly

I have 3 different email accounts operating under Apple Mail (10.8.4).
For some reason two of them get dropped every few minutes and the only way to fix this is to exit Mail and restart it again..
Gets very frustrating after a while..
Anybody got a solution?
Thanks...

Please describe in detail what happened when you took all the applicable steps in the support article. That's the starting point for any further efforts to solve the problem.

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