Apple Mail not updating IMAP inbox

When new mail arrives in an IMAP inbox, Apple Mail will not show the new messages until several hours pass or Mail is quit and restarted. The new mail is visible via other IMAP clients (Thunderbird, Entourage, iPhone) but not in Apple Mail. This occurs once or twice a week with no obvious common trigger. It is happening on my personal computer and many of my client's systems. I've tried rebuilding Inboxes, re-syncing accounts, deleting envelope indexes, creating new mail accounts, new users, etc.... The problem will always return eventually and only quitting and restarting Mail will cause the IMAP INBOX to update.
Affected system: Apple Mail, Snow Leopard 10.6.3 although this has been occurring on multiple systems going back to 10.5 with multiple email providers.
I've searched and searched and just found numerous people with the same issue and no solutions. All of those threads were archived with replies no longer allowed, so I started yet another thread.

Ernie Stamper wrote:
That is correct, but this IDLE to achieve push email might not be working well, at least with Mail. But post back if this does not correct the problem.
Ernie
I have two systems that have the issue and both had the IDLE box checked. I unchecked them both and they ran all day today with no lapses in email. Looks promising but the issue has gone for days sometimes before it re-appears.
I will keep you posted. Hopeful.

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