Can't get mail to go online with .Mac

For several months I am unable for several days at a time to retrieve mail from .Mac. Mail just won't take the account online. I get headers, but no mail. My other accounts work fine, as does web access. This was a problem with my G4 Powerbook, and now with my MacBook Pro.

AFAIK, if Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced
Keep copies of messages for offline viewing is
set to All messages and their attachments, and
you still cannot read your mail properly while
offline, then your mailbox is not fine, as
that's precisely what that setting is for. In order
to fix that problem, you'll have to rebuild
the mailbox when (and if) you can successfully
establish a reliable connection to the server.
As to the connection problems, there is little you
can do, or rather, little I can tell you to do, other
than going to Apple Menu > System Preferences >
Network > Show: Network Port Configurations and
making sure that the configuration used to connect to
Internet is at the top of the list. Also, disable any
communications/networking configuration enabled, but
not in use.
Hi David,
Thanks for your patience and tenacity. My wife and I just returned from a five-day trip to Tibet where we had no Internet access, thank heaven.
The problem persists; I can't get any new mail. I can read the old stuff just fine, but can't get any new mesages from the server. Just for the heck of it I did a "Rebuild Mailbox" as you suggsted, and now I have no mail at all. I'm sure that will be fixed whenever I can get a reliable connection to the server. It seems many folks here are also having similar problems with Yahoo mail. It must be a China thing.
I'll keep you posted.
Frank

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