Mail doesn't connect any accounts..

I try to update my accounts in mail, but i just get a warning trinangle and a message that i cant connect to the servers...

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tanzim
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Hey all - over the weekend my Mail is suddenly not connecting to any of my email servers. I have a 123-reg account, squirrelhosting, and a couple of hotmail accounts - so a variety of POP and IMAP. Mail is not connecting to any of them and is giving me "The server “xxxxxxxxx” cannot be contacted on port xxx.
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Ever since I updated to Mavericks, my emails don't connect to Mac Mail.
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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10039384#10039384
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Hi,
I recently have been getting trouble with Mac Mail.
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Incoming Mail Server
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Username
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OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
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Hello Surjanto1,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities! It looks like you are having issues with the email account setup on your MacBook Pro. Let’s see if we can troubleshoot this in an attempt to resolve the issue.
I’ve verified your settings with our Mail Settings Lookup Tool and it looks like everything is correct. Since the issue persists, let’s try using the Connection Doctor as outlined in this article:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS3276
Cheers,
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Replying to myself the suggestion re. tinkering with the Keychain was a result of this discussion:
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In the meantime, I'd also followed a suggestion to reboot the router/modem. After leaving it off overnight the following morning there were no problems;-) But, was this the result of rebooting the router/modem or had my ISP had a bad afternoon and their mail servers had been running slow? I will ask my ISP if they were aware of anything untoward problems that afternoon which could have caused the problem - if they're willing to admit it!
In the meantime, no "Can't connect" messages!

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The exact same this is happening to me. After I restart mail, the reply message opens, once for each time I hit reply. Same with new message. Also, I tried opening a note I had been working on for weeks, and it didn't open, so I restarted, closed the note (along with 10 other reply windows), and the note didn't save?
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Couldn't I just set this up so this dialogue box never appears at all? It keeps interrupting my work and keeps coming back over and over after exit out and give up on it.

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