Mail won't go get my mail

I am having trouble with MAIL not working. Can I put in the system disk and just install Mail again?? I tried to see if i could put it in the trash and it wouldn't do that. I didn't know if that was a good thing to do or not.
I would appreciate any help. All my mail settings seem correct (POP account) and the mail is on the ISP provider site but not getting to me. When I reboot, I get a few messages to come and then it stops again.

Greetings,
Can I put in the system disk and just install Mail again??
No, that's not a solution because Mail isn't the problem.
All my mail settings seem correct (POP account) and the mail is on the ISP provider site but not getting to me.
First, start Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities), select the icon for the name of your hard drive on the left side of the window, then click Repair Disk Permissions; quit when done. If you get any ACL or SUID errors, they don't mean anything, so ignore them; we're only concerned with it finishing successfully. Test Mail again and if it still doesn't work, do the following:
Create a new User account, setting up the email account(s) in Mail there and testing to see if it works correctly. If not, do that so we can determine where the problem lies.

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