Have to quit Apple Mail to receive new IMAP emails

I am using IMAP email services from Cox Communications.  When I leave Apple Mail running on my MacBook Air it will not receive any new emails.  Only when I quit Mail and relaunch the app will it receive the new emails.  What boggles my mind is it works perfectly on my iPhone and iPad?  What is causing this hang up with Apple Mail when all my settings are the same as they are in my iPhone and iPad?  This has been a problem since I began using IMAP back when I was running Snow Leopard.  Very frustrating, any ideas?

This is also one of my problems with Leopard (among others like missing 'new mail' sound and - since 10.5.2 - dropping Airport connections). I have a Fastmail account and while IMAP seems to work fine with it for a while after having started Mail (as verified by sending mails from the web interface of one of my other email accounts to the Fastmail account), it stops responding to new Mail after I leave it alone for a while (20 min or so).
Manually checking for new mail doesn't help. When I open Mail's activity window by pressing 'cmd+0' I can see that it does connect to the server when I check manually, but it behaves like there is no new mail available. And yes, it is configured to use the IDLE command. Only restarting Mail.app will fetch the new mail.
On my mobile phone (Nokia E61i) this works perfectly, as soon as I get a new mail my phone notifies me of it immediately, so the IDLE command feature of the server works.
I'm really starting to be very disappointed by Apple. This is a standard feature of every decent mail client, this really has to work, and not only with .Mac accounts. I have installed Thunderbird now and while that indeed seems to work better I would hate to switch because Mail.app is really much more nicely integrated into the system. But if these problems persist I might end up having to do just that.

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