POP account suddenly stopped receiving mail

Suddenly one of my POP accounts stopped receiving email on my iMac. The same account with the same settings continues to receive as it should on my MacBook Pro, which suggests there is something wrong on the iMac. I've reentered the password several times, deleted the Keychain entry. Nothing seems to work. This account was working fine then all of a sudden demanded a password and refused to function.
Other accounts, even with the same ISP, work properly on both machines.
Help?

Solution: delete Library/Mail/POP account folder

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