Mail Connection Issue

Dear all,
     I have an issue with my mail on my MacBook Pro since Mountain Lion update.
     After I "wake up" my Mac(lid up the display) Mail App is unable to to connect to my e-mail accounts with error message: "Unable to Connect".
     I have to restart the app to get my mail working propperly(connect propperly).
     There are two e-mail acconts, one Icloud and one IMAP.
Thanks in advance.

After further investigation, this appears to be an issue with Mail that hasn't been fixed by Apple yet. There's a ton of people experiencing the same issue as you. Some have been able to fix it via updating OSX to the latest build, but others continue to have the issue even after that. Moving accounts to Outlook seems to be the only stable solution, but that may not be what you're looking for. For now, either make it a habit to close out of Mail before sleeping or restart it after waking to fix this. As a more streamlined workaround, if you log off before closing your lid, when you log back in, the system will automatically reopen all your programs that were running before if you leave that option checked. I know it's not what you want as well, but at least this way you don't have to do the restart of the app yourself.

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