Apple mail mountain lion keeps needing to be restarted

I have a new Macbook air with mountain lion installed. I have four Imap email accounts set up, three are gmail or google apps, one an opera fastmail account. If i leave the machine alone for a while all the account connections drop out and will only reconnect after mail has been quit and restarted.
I guess a good place to start would be the log files - but where are they?

The logs are here:
About This Mac (under the Apple logo in the menu bar) > More Info > System Report > Logs (quite a way down, under Software)

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