Not receiving mac mail again. frustrated!

This is the second time this month that I stop receiving any mail. At least 6th time this year.
Each time there has been a service advisory on the .mac page indicating that a small % of subscribers are having intermittent mail service butthat the problem has now been resolved.
I seem to get the no-mail problem 1-2 days after the reported "resolution".
oh - I did get 2 emails today. Both spam!
What's the deal?

Not sure if this helps you, but it helped me: I have an Earthlink account that does a similar thing, it just stops receiving new mail in my Mail app. I've discovered if I check my mail on the Earthlink website and delete the next message I'm supposed to have received (after reading it, of course), then go back to my Mail app and click on Get Mail, all of the other emails I haven't yet received come into my mail box.
I've had this problem many times on my computer and so have several others at my work place and this fix worked for them as well. Which is interesting, considering our work email service is Verizon and not Earthlink.
Best of luck, I know how frustrating this is.
Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 4 GB DDR SDRAM

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