Help please: can't receive mail on POP account.

Can someone help me? I can't receive emails on my POP account. I am using 10.6.8 os and apple mail 4.6. I'm able to send messages using port 587. Trying to get ready for business launch on Wednesday. Thanks for your help!

Just curious - were you ever able to receive mail or did you recently set this account up and encounter the problem?
As a paying Dreamhost customer, you should have access to their 24/7 tech support. The basic Apple mac.app account set-up is very straight-forward (at least with web mail).
If this is a new account with no received messages, simply deleting it and going through the set-up again is no big deal. Remember, use IMAP instead of POP3 to receive messages. POP3 pulls the only copy of the message off the server and delivers it to your mail client/computer. Since there is no back-up copy of the data on the server, this is bad news if anything happens to it locally.
Here's a basic tutorial on adding/deleting accounts (just in case):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84cYMuVsLp0
Check out this thread as well - appears that even after deleting an account the name of the old account might remain:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4094214?start=0&tstart=0
To summarize, I would try the following:
1.) Contact Dreamhost and explain your issue - it could be a problem on their end. Don't be shy about using their tech support; you pay for it!
2.) If Dreamhost finds nothing amiss on their end, you could delete and re-enable your account via mail.app (keeping in mind the caveats about backing-up all received POP3 messages and the potential sender account bug from the thread). Use IMAP if possible.
3.) If that does not work for you, try another Mail client. I recommend Thunderbird, but there are other free options:
http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/communication-roundup/8-awesome-alternatives-to -mail-app-on-your-mac/
I doubt that this is causing the problem, but you could also disable your firewall (System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Firewall) and see if that changes anything.
Hope one of these works for you.

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