Mail cannot read data from server

Hello!
I'm fairly new to Macs, having used a PC for 12 years, and am still getting used to it's little quirks.
I now have a problem where one of my email servers (a POP account) makes Mail (and Thunderbird for that) come up with;
The attempt to read data from ** has failed
Now, I know that the log on info is OK, as using my Webmail account, on the same iMac, accesses the mail fine. I've emptied the relevant mail account, both locally and on the server, removed the local settings and reset them using info on various Mac help sites.
Nothing that I know of has changed, I've ran and re-ran the reset permissions tool.
Can anyone give me any help?
Intel iMac 20" Duo 2ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
Has this POP account ever worked in Mail? Is the POP3 server in question unique to this one account, or do you have other accounts from the same provider, using the same POP3 server as the Incoming Server?
Ernie

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