Mail, stopped downloading email weeks ago, what to do?

Sinces APtril email stooped downloading emailk from my yahoo, hotmail, gmail accounts, it starts but do not dowload anything in hours

In Mail's Window Menu, choose Connection Doctor, any red dots for status, if so what is the message?
Then click the Show Details button & Check again.
Open Mail's Activity Window, does that show anything?

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Hello,
I have just recently started to use Apple Mail (3.6) and set up two accounts: one POP for hotmail and one IMAP for gmail. While sending mails works fine with both accounts, the hotmail one stops downloading mails from the server at a certain point.
From the approximately 15000 mails on the server, Mail downloads about 3000 (the oldest ones, which I neither need nor want on my computer anyway) and then stops. When I click on receive new mails, it will show the connecting sign as usual. The bar on the left, which indicates how many e-mails remain on the server and how many are currently being downloaded, pops up for a second, telling me that all remaining 12000 e-mails have been downloaded in the same time span - which obviously didn't happen.
I have already tried deleting downloaded mails from my computer, thinking that there might be a limit to the number of mails saved on the desktop. Also I deleted the whole account and set it up again, but the same thing happened at exactly the same point, respectively the same email downloaded. What to do?
Thanks to everyone who can help me out with this!

Yes, these were the e-mails that showed up in the inbox, i.e. they were the chunk of mails that I could download before Apple Mail stopped the downloading at all. I deleted them because I thought it would make space for newer ones to be downloaded.
No, I have not used any other Mail application before. I used to go directly to the hotmail-webpage.
Interestingly, I have deleted the whole account again and set it up anew - which enabled Apple Mail to another round of downloading mails when I did it the last time. This time however, nothing happened: again, the bar on the left appears for a second, telling me that around 12000 mails are on my server and that all have been downloaded in about this second. But they do not show up. It remains a mistery to me, even more so as Mail is obviously able to detect all mails on the server (when I check under Account Information, Emails on Server) but not to download them.

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I have 2 gmail accounts and a yahoo account. I had Mail set up to download all three; for some unknown reason, Mail has stopped downloading emails from the yahoo account and from one of the gmail accounts; how do I correct this?

Schwaben10 wrote:
"Are you sure you want to remove the “Gmail 2” POP account and all of its messages? The account’s setup information, mailboxes, and all messages will be deleted permanently from your computer. Copies of messages on the mail server, if they exist, will not be affected."
Apologies for the delay in responding.
That's why I posted in an earlier message "I'd check your Gmail account online. If you see all your e-mail there, I'd delete the Gmail account in Mail and create it again."
But I don't want to lose all messages from my computer, and I have the account set to erase them from the server once they're downloaded. Is there another way without losing all my messages?
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Our company uses GroupWise 7, and I have MBP and Mac Pro downloading messages from the pop3 server using Mail.
Few days ago, Mail stopped downloading new messages from the server on BOTH MBP and Mac Pro.
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You’re welcome, but I cannot assume anything you don’t tell us. What you had already tried is essential information that you should have provided from the very beginning...
Actually, it isn’t clear whether you tried removing from the server the particular message that Mail could be choking on or removed something else, nor whether Mail is really failing to download the messages or it’s actually downloading them but you have some rules that process them in an unexpected way...
Do the messages that Mail displays in the Account Info window, but apparently doesn’t download, appear there as already downloaded or as not downloaded yet (dot column)? If they appear as not downloaded yet, does Mail display any extraneous info for any of them, e.g. a size or a date that doesn’t make sense?
Not sure how Eudora or Thunderbird will help me here.
Well, reading what I said in the same paragraph where I suggested using another mail client would answer that, i.e. to avoid losing messages that Mail hasn’t downloaded yet as a result of removing them from the server...
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For POP accounts, Mail uses a file within the account folder to keep track of which messages have already been downloaded. You may try deleting that file so that Mail treats the messages still on the server as if new and tries to download them again:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to the ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/ account folder.
3. Locate one or two files named MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded and move them to the Trash. Mail 1.x used MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded to keep track of which messages had already been downloaded. Mail 2.x uses MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2 for the same purpose.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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Hey Everyone,
My iPhone (on restart) will download my pop mail from 3 accounts, then after about 2 hours, it stops receiving emails. I have to restart my phone to get it to retrieve the messages. If I don't restart it just hangs on the 'connecting..' alert...
I have it set to auto check for new messages every 30 minutes. I never had this problem until I upgraded to 2.0
Has anyone else run into this??
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