Mail dropping offline to quickly

Is there any way to get Mail to not give up so easily when connecting to the mail server and get email? At one of our locations the bandwidth is a bit small and the network gets busy (I'm working on it but most likely will not be resolved for a while), so when Mail tries to connect it gives up almost immediately and goes offline. Ok, so the network is busy and the external bandwidth is smaller than it should be, but other email clients (including Entourage) are able to connect and get email.
There has to be a way to change the amount of time that Mail is willing to wait for before it times out and drops to an offline state.... This is quite annoying.
Thanks,
Peter

I sympathize with you, but I'm afraid there is nothing you can do about it other than customize the toolbar to include the Go Online/Go Offline button to make your life easier, or switch to another mail client -- I'd love to be wrong, though.

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I am having quite the interesting issue. I have read plenty of reports where users' Apple Mail app is using 100% of CPU. This did not start for me until I went to go use the new mail drop feature in Yosemite. I am running Yosemite (10.10) on my 13" Retina - MacBook Pro (flash storage, 8GB RAM, 2.4 dual-core Intel i5) and my Apple mail is version 8.0. I have tried 3 different mail services (2 gmail accounts and iCloud), all result in the same issue. I have also done a complete erase of the hard disk and a brand new install of Yosemite, the issue persists.
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