Mail not working password rejected

After latest software update Leopard 10.5.8 Mail receives the message "password rejected" So I type it in and it still fails. I dumped plist file in Library, and tried keychain access repair thinking that maybe something was corrupted. Mail is still not working. My Mail account is through a local Internet provider. It is a POP account.

OK! I figured this out... and it's probably the dumbest thing I ever encountered using mail. Called internet provider and told them the problem. They looked at the account and said that I had exceeded the quota on the amount of mail on their servers. It created a "POP lock". Stupid...
Anyways the fix was to change preferences in the advanced tab. Instead of having copy's of emails stored on their servers for a period of time you can choose to do it right away, which I did. Which they prefer apparently. I can't imagine why they wouldn't want copy's of thousands of spam messages stored on their servers for at least a week, maybe longer. They kindly reset my account after changing the settings, thus removing the "POP lock" Works fine now. Thanks for all your help.

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