Mail Alert with Triangle Exclamation Mark with iMap - Too Many Connections?

I have one Laptop (Macbook mid-07) on Leopard 10.5.6 and a Macbook Pro 09 on Leopard 10.5.8. I just switched over to iMap where I have two email accounts set up on both laptops. Both laptops have identical accounts set up on them.
I'm currently geting the triangle with the exclamation mark alert on the inboxes of both accounts when both laptops have Apple Mail open. Is this an issue with Apple Mail or my Service Provider possibly complaining that I have too many connections? I don't get these alerts when only one laptop has the Mail App open. The alert reads:
Alert
There may be a problem with the mail server or the network. Check the settings for the account "IMAP" or try again.
The server error encountered was: The attempt to read data from the server "mail.mydomain.com" failed.
However, Mail seems to send and receive okay with the alerts popping up and so I'm not sure if this alert is anything to be serioulsy concerned about. Or, is there a way to fix this?

I set mail to fetch messages every 15 minutes where I delayed one laptop in opening up mail initially by 5 minutes. That way, both laptops are not fetching mail concurrently and there's a gap of time for them to download mail before the other starts. This seemed to have fix this alert issue and I'm no longer getting these messages.
Although, 15 minutes seems to be a bit long for auto fetching since my email can be under some time constraints. Does anyone know how to set the time to check every 10 minutes which I can probably live with? Currently, I have the option to set for 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, or manually.

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