Mail checks email fine all day, then "loses connection."

I recently upgraded to Tiger, and I'm having an odd problem with mail. After a fresh restart, Mail will automatically check all my boxes (6 POP accts) just fine for quite a while (a whole day, eg.) but then, invariably, something will happen that results in the program being unable to connect with any of my accounts. Restarting the computer always fixes this problem. But I'm getting sick of restarting the computer every day -- I'm used to restarting it once a week at most.
Anyone have any experience with a problem like this?

Hi, thanks for the initial suggestions. I've changed the settings to check mail every 5 mins instead of every min. Maybe it's a matter of hitting my POP servers too often? All my email hosting is through GoDaddy.
As far as Network port settings, I don't think it's a connectivity problem. Every time this has happened, all my other Internet connections continued to work fine. It's just that mail suddenly fails to connect to my POP accounts for no discernable reason. Closing and relaunching Mail doesn't resolve the issue; the only fix seems to be to restart the computer entirely. Upon restart, Mail once again connects to all POP accounts just fine.
When (if) it fails again, I'll post the specific error messages I get in the Connection Doctor. Maybe that will shed some light.
Thank you!
Mary

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