Mail wont download emails

The account checks out fine, even in the connection doctor but when I try to get new mail it starts to download then trickles down to 0kbps and sits there and after a while Mail just gives up and acts like it finished downloading when it really hasn't.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
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Same thing started happening to me today. It will only download 2-3 emails, I force quit mail, erase those downloaded emails from the server and it will download 2-3 new emails. It keeps saying there's 20 some emails, but it goes to 0kb.
I have 4 accounts on my mail, all 4 seem to have this problem..

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