Intermittent access to mail

My wife and I have two computers both set up with three email accounts through BT Yahoo. We never have problems in sending mail but periodically, and now for ten consecutive days, we have trouble receiving mail into the various inboxes. The iMac G5 will always receive mail on the first account (a joint one which nobody much uses!) but will not receive any mail at all on the other two personal accounts. The iBook also receives mail on the joint account all the time but receives mail on the other two accounts in a very erratic manner which we cannot fathom at all.
I have thoroughly checked all the account settings and can find nothing wrong there. What else is there that could go wrong at this end? The fact that we are having trouble with both machines at the same time leads me to think that the BT Yahoo server could be the problem. I have emailed them but do not anticipate a swift response.
We are still able to see all our incoming mail on the BT Yahoo Mail web site but find this nowhere near as convenient. Any suggestions?
Edward Mason

I have run Console but nothing happened as I opened up Mail. I have looked at the previous stuff on console but am afraid that it does not mean much to me and it only seems to go back 24 hours or so.
I have just done something else though: I deleted all three Mail accounts and was about to re-create them when I realised that I had also lost all my old Inbox and Sent box emails. So I tried to recover these from my daily back up hard drive but they failed to restore from the incremental backups for either Thurs 5th or Fri 6th March. I then went right back to my last full backup on 7th Feb. This worked fine and restored my mailboxes to that date and also reset my accounts. The settings looked the same as they do now but when I tried to 'Get mail' it began to retrieve mail ON ALL THREE ACCOUNTS !
I thought this had cracked it (though I do not understand why) but the mail retrieval stopped at 10.32 on the 18th Feb and would go no further (except on the one account which still works). Looking back at my usage I found that the machine was in the repair shop then (for the first time) having a new Superdrive fitted. I have not been able to talk to the guy since finding this out but this could have been about the time he started work on it. What on earth could have happened?
I think that it must be something to do with the Mail account settings (as restoring Mail settings to 7th Feb got it going again) but I also think that it must be to do with the Network settings as my iBook developed the same problem only after I got the iMac back from the repair shop on the 20th Feb. I am totally baffled, as I think the guy in the repair shop might be.
If this was any other App I would bin the preferences and then re-install the App. and create all new accounts but I don't see how this can be done without re-installing the whole system which seems a bit drastic. Also, how can I archive all my old sent and received emails before re-installing or deleting anything?

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