Mail.app on Snow Leopard won't retrieve messages through POP3

Hi.
I've just recently upgraded to Snow Leopard. I managed to setup a Gmail IMAP account which worked fine. Then I tried to setup POP accounts of my GoDaddy hosting/email plan. The setup seemed to finish without problems but when I hit the "Get mail" button... Nothing happens. And I mean "nothing". No error, no notice, no downloaded messages, nothing. I can't even send email using their smtp servers.
Anyone has any idea what might be wrong?
Thank you.

'Nothing' usually means the connection to the server is ok, but no mail is ready to be retrieved or sent.
Confirm you can ping those servers and that mail is waiting to be pulled, etc. then trash & redo the connections again - restart your computer and see if it works.
If still now joy, try this - find the /Library/Preferences folder in your user/Home folder and then locate and delete this file:
com.apple.mail.plist
*Caution* - doing this may clear your account settings so be sure to note those first in the event you are required to reconfigure, etc.

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