My POP mail account has stopped working

Hi,
I have a mail account with PlusNet. For years it's worked fine, but a week ago I stopped receiving emails on my POP account (my other iCloud account is fine) and got an exclamation mark/triangle icon next to the account name. The connection doctor tells me that trying to log in to the POP account failed and suggested I check that the username and password are correct. I did and both are okay.
I checked back with PlusNet, my ISP, and they said that a recent Mac OS update had upset things. They suggested I go into Mail Preferences - Advanced and untick 'Use SSL' and untick 'Automatically detect and maintain account settings'. I did this but still no luck.
PlusNet then said to contact Apple.
Has anyone else had similar problems? To clarify, I can't receive new mail on my POP account, but do be able to send okay.
Thanks
Stephen

I have exactly the same problem. I'm also with Plusnet, Mail always worked fine until maybe a week or so ago. I'd upgraded to 10.10.1 earlier in the year and had some problems with Mac freezing or shutting down at random, which seemed to have eventually sorted itself out somehow, eventually, but never had any problems with Mail.
Problem is exactly the same as you state, have just tried what you said Plusnet suggested and no luck for me either.
Have now also done the most recent upgrade to 10.10.2 but Mail still doesn't work properly.
I have 4 Mailboxes for different addresses, the three affected ones are all (incoming)mail.plus.net (outgoing)relay.plus.net the only one unaffected is (incoming)pop.secureserver.net (outgoing)smtpout.secureserver.net
Some emails have not been sent or sent without attachments and v.v.slow to get incoming emails. I have to check on webmail to make sure I get the incoming emails but it doesn't show the sent messages from Mac Mail.
Hope this info helps in some way, do post if you find a solution/cause.
Cheers, Chris

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