Hangs on retrieving mail on startup

okay this is happening every day now and I may have to go back to Entourage (this is something I really don't want to have to do!)
Every time I startup Mail and it automatically retrieves my mail from the two accounts I have set up on there it stalls after retrieving a few emails and then the dreaded kaleidoscope takes over and won't let me do anything. The only way I've found of getting around this is to delete the preferences and the having to key in my account details when I startup Mail again - I cannot keep on doing this every day though.
Any help would be much appreciated.

I have a similar problem with Dreamhost. It always hangs fetching the last message from the POP account and I have to Force Quit or Mail.app will get stuck fetching forever.
I have done everything including making new mailboxes on Dreamhost for testing... same result. Disappointing. Thunderbird, on the other hand, has worked perfectly and never exhibited the annoying IMAP flagging bugs and this new POP bug that Mail.app does.
Unfortunately it does not integrate with iCal. I would really like to use Mail.app but Apple seems like they really want me to use Thunderbird instead. I could really not give a **** about stationary.

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I have a problem with retrieving mail from a POP account. Mail seem to hang after the last new mail has been retrieved from the account. E.g, the activity viewer shows "Fetching 7 of 7", the progress bar indicates that all mails have been retrieved, but never completes. Pressing the Stop button next to the progress bar does not have an effect. Mail then indefinitly hangs in the "STOPPING" phase. In that state I cannot retrieve mails for other accounts, either. I have to force quit Mail.
Has anyone experiences similar problems and found a solution?
Thanks,
Sascha
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Does your account have webmail capability? If so, log into your account that way, and deal with the offending message.

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I have four mail mail accounts, one is my ISP mail and the three others are No-IP.com mailboxes. When retrieving mail and there are incoming mail, the No-Ip.com mailboxes hangs, the little spinning things next to the mailboxes stops spinning and Mail hangs and I have to force quit. I have to do this for every other incoming mail and they get retrieved at least twice.
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If the HD is not partitioned, then this is certainly enough free space.
It may be a good idea to refresh the preferences. Quit Mail, and in the Finder open Home/Library and locate the Mail folder. Control-click over the Mail folder, and choose Duplicate -- then drag the resulting copy to the Desktop for temporary backup. Next, open Home/Library/Preferences and find the com.apple.mail.plist file and drag it to the desktop.
Relaunch Mail, which will open as though new, and when prompted to import anything DECLINE. Instead, re-enter your account info for each account, and Mail will re-discover the account folders for all your existing accounts.
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Go to System Preferences > Network > Show: Network Port Configurations, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list.
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hi,
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HI Andrei,
thank you for giving reply, I'm not using any secondary indecies, subdatabases and not using any threads.
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#include <db_cxx.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <db.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
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      snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", x);
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int ai;
int bi;
memcpy(&ai,a->get_data(),sizeof(int));
memcpy(&bi,b->get_data(),sizeof(int));
return(ai-bi);
struct tuple
       int startPos;
       int endPos;
       int level;
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               t.endPos=l;
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                    try
                         db->open(NULL,
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                                   dbname,
                          DB_BTREE,
                            DB_CREATE,
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                    cout<<"key already exist\n";
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#include <db_cxx.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <db.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
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       int endPos;
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     myEnv.set_cachesize(0, PAGE_SIZE * numBuffers, 0);
     myEnv.set_data_dir("/home/raviov/new/database");
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                  myEnv.open("./", DB_CREATE | DB_INIT_MPOOL, 0);
           catch (DbException &e) {
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          db=new Db(&myEnv,0);
          db->set_pagesize(PAGE_SIZE);
          db->set_bt_compare(compare_int);
     dbname=itoa(p);
     try
          db->open(NULL,
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                 0,
                 0);
     catch(DbException &e)
          cerr << "Failed to open DB object" << endl;
          exit(1);
     db->cursor(NULL,&cursorp,0);
     key=new Dbt();
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          cout<<"end   : "<<r<<"\t";
          cout<<"level   : "<<s<<"\n";
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          delete data;
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          cout<<"no records";
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     if(cursorp!=NULL)
          cursorp->close();
     try
          db->close(0);
     catch(DbException &e)
          cerr << "Failed to close DB object" << endl;
          exit(1);
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