Mail.app doesn't retrieve new mail

MAIL was asking constantly for Password on IMAP server. Couldn't hold on to it. Now I don't even get that. Activity Window show near constant cycling of Registering Synchronization Preferences (I think that was it). And ... never retrieved mail from IMAP server. ISP says they have no answer on their end and their experience with MAIL since 10.5 has been buggy, with no fixes on their end. Suggestions, please?

I too am having this problem with Mail (on 10.5.6). Im not sure when the problem started, but I have noticed it more recently (past couple of months).
I too have an iPhone and receive my MobileMe email and Exchange (university account) email instantly. I understand that both of these are correctly configured for 'push' email on my iPhone, but I would have thought that they would only lag by a few seconds in Mail on my MacBook Pro.
I have often found that I receive the email on my iPhone and then wish to reply to it on my laptop, only to discover that even if I press 'Get Mail' the email has not been retrieved.
The only way that I have found to fix this is to quit the mail application, re-launch it and then find the new mail waiting for me.
I can understand that this lag will be more obvious on the exchange account (due to the iPhone fully supporting exchange and active-sync). But I dont understand why I get a large lag (sometimes 10 minutes) with my mobileme account, even when mail is set to check every minute.
Thanks in advance for anyones help.
David Macknelly

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