IMAP message retrieval stops working & attachments don't fully download

Hi,
I have been trying to use OSX Mail for the last 60 days and have gotten everything set up, but I have been getting intermittent issues every few days.
I'm using IMAP for my mail. Note, I used to use Outlook on Windows before and I never had these issues.
1) Stops downloading new messages. Every few days/etc. Mail will stop downloading new messages. If I go to my online box through our company's web mail I'll have tons of new mail.
If I check the Activity Monitor for Mail, it shows itself as stuck on sync/copy/add messages from server. The only way I can get it to download new mail is to remove the account from Mail and then add it on again. I have to do this every couple of days or more just to use Mail. I've listed several images of the activity monitor every time Mail stops retrieving messages:
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2) Entire message attachments don't download. 90% of the attachments in my messages are not fully downloaded. So when I try to save/open the file it's incomplete.
I hope you guys can help me fix/solve these issues. All my software is up to date. It would be nice to use Mail. I really like the software, but I can't deal with removing and then adding the account every day. It's very inconsistent.
Thank you for all your help!

I'm having the same problem. The attached images on received messages do not fully load. When I check in webmail all the images are just fine but in Mail.app they are corrupted. They show half the image and half gray area, and sometimes the image is all gray.
Any solutions?
EDIT: By the way I'm using a AIM IMAP account.
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