Sending Mail, Not Receiving Mail, not .mac

I just set up Mail to go through my Embarq account, and it works just find sending mail, but not for receiving mail. I have gone through the preferences a couple of times and carefully re-entered the information, but nuthin'. For my personal needs, being able to send is more important, but I'd like it to work all of the time! I followed the suggestions on this board, but can't seem to remedy the situation.
Any suggestions?

Hi, I am in the UK and had the same problem. FWIW, I updated my G4 MDD DP867 to 10.5.7 and nada no mail send, only receive. I had also updated my MacPro 8 core to same spec. I looked at that and it worked. In the MP8 the difference was my out was saying this> smtp.demon.co.uk:username <and it should be> post.demon.co.uk. <I tried the new settings in G4 and nothing still worked, So I went to connect doctor and had it running with both send addresses at the same time. All of a sudden all the previous test mails started to fly out. I quickly saved the post. setting and this time it worked. Now it is running OK. Maybe you can try a similar method using a non address against the real one, it may kick it into life. I still do not know why the MP8 is running with a wrong address but I will leave it alone. Anyway good luck, hopefully 10.5.8 will not be so traumatic.

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