Unable to download emails

I have a G5 and a MacBook, both running OS 10.4.8 and both using Mail 2.1. I have a number of email accounts, and all work perfectly on the MacBook. However one of them recently refuses to download emails on the G5, in spite of the fact that the account details are identical on both computers. How can this be?
When I go to Get Mail on the G5, the Activity Viewer indicates that it is "Fetching New Mail" and that it is "Preparing to Retrieve Messages", but never gets further than that. Connection Doctor indicates green buttons on all the Accounts.
Account info shows 188 messages (all Sender unknown) and all with blue dot (unread).
I have tried Disk Uitility/Repair permissions. I have tried removing and re-instating the malevolent Account in Mail, dumping the Mail Preferences, clearing out unwanted old emails, even dumping the complete ~/Library/Mail folder.
I have checked System Preferences/Network/Network Port configurations/ (all in correct order), Mail/Accounts/Advanced/ (all boxes checked).
Any ideas?

I’ve seen something like this reported before and I couldn’t figure out what the problem was. Given that it has started recently, can you think of anything you did that could have a bearing on this?
Do you have any Mail plug-ins or system utilities that could interfere with Mail? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/StartupItems/
/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
Also, open Apple Menu > System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items. What do you see there?
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

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