Mail program not working

I have 3 mailboxes connected to my mail program on imac. 2 of them are the same mailbox from my yahoo mail.One works on STMP and another works on POP server.
The first question is, how do I combine them into one mailbox because I do get mails that are duplicated sometimes.
The second question is that every now and then, I cannot send mails out from my mailbox. I will get the message as shown in the graphic below. and every mail server cannot work. I will usually restart the mail program, and try it again a few times. Is there some setting i can change?
Last question is that all the mails downloaded from my yahoo servers, are not found in the yahoo server anymore. My webbased yahoo mailbox is empty. Any way to undo that? it is definitely safer to keep my mails in the webbased server and not in my com. I have no idea why my webbased mailbox is wiped out in the first place.
Any gurus....? Care to help?
Very frustrated,
Chu

Hi Chu,
Regarding your last question (empty Yahoo mailbox): I'm assuming that these are accessed via POP. It's been a while since I used POP for mail, but there should be a setting that controls the "delete after a message is downloaded from the server" behavior: likely on Mail-->Preferences-->Accounts, possibly part of the setup on your Yahoo account itself.
Just IMO, but if your intent is to leave the email on the server, rather than simply have it forwarded to your email client, then you might want to look into using IMAP instead of POP. A side benefit of this would be that changes in one client (message read, message flagged, etc.) would be reflected in all other clients, including the web interface.

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