The ol' "mail.app holds 3 persistent connection per account" problem.

I've seen posts from a few years ago regarding this problem. My mail host only allows a certain number of persistent connection... ok, that's my bad for cheaping out on a host, I can dig that.
But there has to be an automated way to check, and disconnect for these types of situations. It doesn't seem right to have to change isp's when mail.app could have a little checkbox that says:
"don't persist IMAP connection because of ghetto ISP".
The fraction of a second it would take to reconnect, check and retrieve headers, then disconnect is something I can live with.
Does anyone have a workaround or know of a client that allows non-persistant imap connections?
Maybe an IMAP proxy daemon?
Any help will be rewarded by receiving the praise of all the other poor sods in the same boat. Your name will be rejoiced the world over, you will be a GOD!
Thanks

If Mail complains that it timed out on port 0, that means there is something wrong with your network and/or account settings.
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list.
Also, try using a different method to connect to Internet, if possible, or connecting the computer to Internet as directly as possible, i.e. bypassing any routers that might be present, using an ethernet cable instead of wireless, etc., and see whether that makes a difference.
As to the logs, Mail doesn’t make it easy to get them. Open /Applications/Utilities/Console and do either File > Open Console Log, or File > Open System Log, or both, so that Console displays the contents of both system.log and console.log.
Apparently, you can tell Mail to provide detailed log information as described in the following article (I haven’t tried it myself):
Enable detailed Mail.app logging options
Also, Mail comes with a Turn On Logging AppleScript that I haven’t tried either, but that was discussed in the following thread:
MAIL LOG???

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But there's another problem which might be getting in your way: mail.app does indeed create persistent connections, but then rather than re-using them, it seems to open another new persistent connection each time it checks the mail. So the processes never close, and they start to pile up as new ones are added.
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http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes <br />
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