Problems with IMAP account in mail

Recently I reconfigured my email accounts from POP to IMAP. My provider supports both.
With POP, never experienced problems in Mail (Lion)
With IMAP, I always get the exclamation mark behind the mailbox name.
Sending messages is no problem. Receiving works from time to time, but i'll always see that error. When I click on the mark, it says that the server returned a fault: reading information from server 'imap.myserver.be' failed.
I checked the settings several times and all is correct. I contacted my provider and everything works fine on their side.
It's very annoying because I'm not sure everything works flawlessly.
Anyone any idea how to solve this issue?

Hi,
I am working on this in a topic with another person with some IMAP issues. I have 4 IMAP accounts, and in two of them Use IDLE is checked and in the other 2 it is not. But neither of the ones checked is gray -- in screenshots for support I have not seen it grayed out either.
I think it might be worthwhile to setup the account to NOT have that selected if that can be done -- it may happen by default, but perhaps if caught during setup, not. One very safe way to do this would be to create a New User Account on your Mac, and as that New User, set up Mail to use this same IMAP account, taking care to see if that can be left Unchecked. However, it may happen automatically by some process.
You can also, in your normal User Account, safely remove any IMAP account, if all mailboxes of importance are stored on the server, and add it again. However, let me know first if you have any other accounts in Mail other than this IMAP?
Ernie

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