Mail stops accessing mails

Mail stops accessing mails in most cases after downloading many of them. The rest will follow then and when. I am not sure if there is a rest because I forget the number of the downloaded mails when the procedure is finished.

Welcome to the forums Oliver... good work at narrowing the problem down so far!
Try dragging this file to the Desktop and reboot...
/Users/nnnn/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Might also pay to clean caches, I use Applejack, but there are many. The log makes me think cache especially.

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It happened a mail 78. So I deleted the corresponding mail from the server and another similar looking one as well. Now the problem happened downloaden mail 76, which of course was a different mail than the one which caused the error at first. I then created a new account in mail.app which downloads from the same mail account and the problem happens there as well.
It is a POP account.
I then tested what's happening if I create a new user in Mac OS X and use Mail.app in the new account. This works.
So the problem is limited to my user account and there to all mail accounts going to the same POP server/user.
Do you have any ideas what could cause this behaviour and how I can solve it?
Bye

Welcome to the forums Oliver... good work at narrowing the problem down so far!
Try dragging this file to the Desktop and reboot...
/Users/nnnn/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
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Greetings Apple Discussions:
I have my OSX firewall off, Verizon DSL westell 2200 modem, and a Linksys wired router. A few days ago I reconfigured the router through an IBM laptop with NetSet software from Linksys.
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Symptom: Mail is received by 2 users out of 6. They all used to get mail but the 3 newest ones stopped getting mail.
At one point I thought it was some sort of spam filter because it looked like it would not get mail from a particular domain (@my.simulscribe.com). I looked around and couldn't find anything that could be blocking it though. We do have a Barracuda Spam firewall but nothing in there looks like it even deals with this server at all. I could be wrong or looking in the wrong place.
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xserver:~ root# sudo serveradmin fullstatus mail
mail:setStateVersion = 1
mail:servicePortsAreRestricted = "NO"
mail:state = "RUNNING"
mail:startedTime = "2008-12-06 18:32:59 -0800"
mail:readWriteSettingsVersion = 1
mail:logPaths:Server Log = "/var/log/mailaccess.log"
mail:logPaths:Lists smtp = "/var/log/mailman/smtp"
mail:logPaths:Amavisd Log = "/var/log/amavis.log"
mail:logPaths:Virus DB Log = "/var/log/freshclam.log"
mail:logPaths:Lists subscribe = "/var/log/mailman/subscribe"
mail:logPaths:Lists smtp-failure = "/var/log/mailman/smtp-failure"
mail:logPaths:Lists post = "/var/log/mailman/post"
mail:logPaths:Lists error = "/var/log/mailman/error"
mail:logPaths:POP Log = "/var/log/mailaccess.log"
mail:logPaths:SMTP Log = "/var/log/mail.log"
mail:logPaths:Lists qrunner = "/var/log/mailman/qrunner"
mail:logPaths:Virus Log = "/var/log/clamav.log"
mail:logPaths:IMAP Log = "/var/log/mailaccess.log"
mail:servicePortsRestrictionInfo = emptyarray
mail:cluster:enable_imap = yes
mail:cluster:enablesmtpin = yes
mail:cluster:enable_pop = yes
mail:cluster:enablesmtpout = yes
mail:postfixStartedTime = "2008-12-06 18:32:59 -0800"
mail:cyrusStartedTime = "2008-12-06 18:33:07 -0800"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:0:kind = "INCOMING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:0:active = 1
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:0:protocol = "IMAP"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:0:state = "RUNNING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:0:status = "ON"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:0:error = ""
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:0:total = 1
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:1:kind = "INCOMING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:1:active = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:1:protocol = "POP3"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:1:state = "RUNNING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:1:status = "ON"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:1:error = ""
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:1:total = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:2:kind = "INCOMING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:2:active = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:2:protocol = "SMTP"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:2:state = "RUNNING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:2:status = "ON"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:2:error = ""
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:2:total = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:3:kind = "OUTGOING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:3:active = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:3:protocol = "SMTP"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:3:state = "RUNNING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:3:status = "ON"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:3:error = ""
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:3:total = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:4:kind = "OUTGOING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:4:active = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:4:protocol = "LISTSERVER"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:4:state = "STOPPED"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:4:status = "OFF"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:4:error = ""
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:4:total = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:5:kind = "INCOMING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:5:active = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:5:protocol = "Junkmailfilter"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:5:state = "STOPPED"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:5:status = "OFF"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:5:error = ""
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:5:total = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:6:kind = "INCOMING"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:6:active = 0
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:6:protocol = "Virus_scanner"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:6:state = "STOPPED"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:6:status = "OFF"
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:6:error = ""
mail:protocolsArray:arrayindex:6:total = 0

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