Mail accounts don't download POP mail unless account is deleted and readded

Lately, I've been having trouble with Mail. It just stops downloading mail (but will send) from my server. When I login via webmail, I can always get my mail. I fix this problem by deleting the account from mail, and setting it back up again. Then it downloads all the mail from my server. It seems like after a day or so, it stops working. The problem can't be on my servers end, because it works perfectly. The problem is only in my mail program. I'm getting tired of deleting and re-adding almost every day. Any advice?

If this is a POP account, instead of deleting the mail account, you might get the same results by just deleting the file that Mail uses to keep track of which messages have already been downloaded:
1. Quit Mail.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/.
3. Locate one or two files named MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded and move them to the Trash. Mail 1.x used MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded to keep track of which messages had already been downloaded. Mail 2.x uses MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2 for the same purpose.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder.
It’s strange, however, that re-creating the account (or the MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded file) completely fixes the problem for a while, but it starts happening again shortly afterwards. Does Mail really download all the messages on the server every time you re-create the account?
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
Also, go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list.

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