Mail can no longer send or receive reliably

I didn't do ANYTHING to change ANYTHING except the recent software update. Now, neither of my Mail accounts -- which worked fine last week -- will send mail reliably. One, a POP account, works intermittently; the other, which I had to re-add as an IMAP account, doesn't work at all.
The servers are fine. The addresses are fine. My username and password is fine. I changed NOTHING after using the correct settings for several years. And now, nothing.
Help!

OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages

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    Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions ...
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