No longer able to retrieve mail

Hi All,
I'm recently having a problem receiving email on my Macbook Pro. (OSX 10.6.8).
Seemed to be working fine until a couple of days ago. Then, unable to connect to connect via wireless. Last night when I connected using an ethernet cord, it worked. Today, no luck with wireless or ethernet.
I AM able to send mail via wireless. I'm less than saavy when it comes to this stuff, and am completely stumped.
Any ideas what might be wrong?
Thanks,

How much mail are we talking about here? Roughly how many messages, and roughly how many gigabytes of mail?
Who is the mail provider? Is this a local provider on a local network, or one of the "free" providers, or something from your ISP?
Do you have free disk space on your OS X system here, or is it possible that your disk is getting full?
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You can also try a mailbox repair pass; there's a Rebuild option in the Mail.app menus.
If the downloads are failing, then the usual trigger is the IMAP or POP password setup; there are two entirely seperate connections and two separate credentials and such; the send path (SMTP) and the receive (IMAP or POP) path. Usual triggers for problems are changes to the mail servers involved, or the mail ports, or the credentials needed; I've seen vendors change each of those, and forget to mention it to their users.
That OS X version is extremely old. (I don't have anything nearly that old to check the details fo the setup of that version; 10.6.8 is the oldest OS X version I have handy.)

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