Quitting & Reopening Mail is more reliable than Get Mail

Almost anytime I suspect Apple Mail not to be showing me my mail, I close and reopen it, and am flooded with email. Why does Get Mail not work reliably?

It is all because of the connection...
when you close Apple mail client the connection to the server closes as well, and soon you start up, it connects and all runs smoothly.
when you click GetMail button, the connection it might be already available, so it needs to clean up the buffer, check if it was downloading something, verify this and that... and then get email content... and sometimes (but only sometimes) it is best to close the connections (closing the Mail client).
as I said in the beginning, it's all about your connection, DSL connections have more problems than High speed cable ones, but... at least now you know why!
P.S. here I never shut down the Mail, i always get t soon I press GetMail (I do have several accounts, including Google Mail, on Apple mail)

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If you look at the boards you will see people that have problems with both applications. Not that either one is bad, but since boards are designed to help with issues, it is rare that you get someone saying "Wow this has been rock solid for a year" so it is always a grain of salt.
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