Mail accounts keep dis-enabling themselves

I have a MacPro lap top with a POP mail account & mobile me account, I use the built in mail programme to read mail. I have just set up an Imac with the same accounts as above and again, using mail to mange the accounts. Mobile me is also on the synch across all.
When I went into the laptop tonight I found that the mail accounts were not enabled, so I enabled them. Just logged into the Imac and the same thing, the accounts were not enabled.
Does this mean that i have to enable accounts on which ever machine I now use, that seems a bit weird to me as i would have thought they could live happily together. Any advice/ guidance gratefully received
regards

First thing to do is to disable mail account syncing in System Preferences>MobileMe>Sync: this doesn't sync your messages, only the account settings, so you don't need it, and it might possibly be part of the problem.
If Mail tries to contact an account and fails, because of a break in connection or the server fails to respond, it will take the account offline (which is annoying because it won't try checking again until you notice it and put it back online) - though it will give you a warning sign which when clicked on should give an error message. If you wake a Mac from sleep and Mail happens to try to do an automatic check during the short period before the internet reconnects it will take all the accounts offline.

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