Mac mail suddenly stopped downloading.

OS 10.7.5. Mail is v 5.3. I haven't made any changes, but POP mail suddenly stopped working this evening. My host does not seem to be having a problem. Any thoughts?

you may also want to go into the mail preferences/general and increase the frequency that your mac checks for new messages as well.
also be careful rebuilding a POP account because you run the risk of losing your email messages since on a POP account the messages aren't stored on your ESP server. if you choose to do the rebuild export your mailboxes first so you have a backup in case something happens to the messages.

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