IMAP account stopped receiving emails

I have 4 IMAP accounts from btinternet (yahoo) on mac mail and the default (and main) one has stopped receiving email since yesterday evening.  The wheel keeps on turning and no new message comes up. If I go on the web new messages are definitely there.
The other 3 accounts are absolutely fine.
I have tried the 'rebuild' option but it's greyed for that account - again the other accounts are fine!
I have done the obvious quitting mail and restarting the computer but no improvements.
Also copied yesterday morning's com.apple.mail.plist file from Time Capsule and replaced it in my user library but no results.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks

Out of sheer frustration, deleted the delinquant account and reset it.  This seems to have done the trick - even though all the settings are identical??!!!???
Actually you kind of did one of the steps offered in the advice letter. If something similar happens again you don't need to delete the account however overwriting the settings will do the same things. Sometimes a setting although it appears totally OK is corrupt somehow so if you simply re-input what is already there it resets each setting. Narrowing it down to which one is corrupt is almost impossible though so you have to be a bit systematic.
At any rate glad you got it working again.

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