Mail gets locked into fetch mode and spins and spins and spins

Since upgrading to Snow Leopard I have found that every now and then one of my mail accounts, sometimes two, stays stuck with the spinning collect mail thing. The only way I can stop it is to send myself a mail to that account; its arrival being the firm boot applied to bring it to its senses. Anyone else getting this?

I changed my mail host and the problem went away, so I am forced to wonder if it was an entirely external problem.

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