Endless retrieving of POP mail - Mail.app

Hi all, &, yes, help!
Since Monday this week every time I open Mail.app, it starts as usual retrieving new messages on my POP accounts (6 different accounts). Problem is that after retrieving one or two (always the same ones) on the server, it cannot download any other mail. When opening the control window ("visualiseur d'activités" in French), I see that the retriecing tasks are blocked (indication of number of messages to be retrieved, but striped blue and white bar frozen). The retrievign never ends, and I have to force quit the app otherwise it won't close.
I have checked all the account settings, there is absolutely no problem of connection and/or firewall, and I used a temporary alternative (PowerMail) to download the blocked messages - this worked fine, thus it really is a Mail.app issue.
I definitely don't want to switch to PowerMail (far less user-friendly interface and my whole e-mail filing is pretty well organised in mail.app).
Has anyone experienced a similar problem - and is there a solution?
Thanks in advance, folks!

Hi Sheriff296.
Not sure what you mean. You appear to be saying that all your 6 POP accounts have the same problem, but describe it as if it only happened to one of them. Could you please clarify what the situation is exactly?
Sometimes messages left on the server clog up the account there, or Mail chokes on a message it cannot download and that prevents it from downloading the rest as well. Solving this problem may require removing one or more messages from the server. What are your Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings for this account?
You may tell Mail to remove from the server all the messages that have already been downloaded by means of Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove now. Alternatively, you may use the Account Info window to remove specific messages from the server — choose Get Info (⌘I) from the Action menu (gear icon) located below the mailbox list in the main Mail window. And if the account allows web access, you may also remove messages from the server that way.
Try removing from the server messages that have already been downloaded and/or the first message not downloaded yet (i.e. the message that Mail appears to be choking on).
You may want to try to download those messages with another mail client such as Thunderbird first, to avoid losing them — and use Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to import them back into Mail afterwards if you wish.

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