Why am I unable to receive incoming mail?

Why am I unable to receive e-mail but I can send it? Mail version 3.6 for Macbook.

I took it to the Apple store and it had them all stumped. They kept saying I had to have a "bad" e-mail that was preventing others from passing. They tried to erase all e-mails but it still wouldn't work. When they were just about ready to give up the man decided to wipe out anything having to do with e-mail-and start a new account, so I lost messages, but once he cleared all e-mail related items on the laptop, the mail went through!!!
I haven't had problems since- so....I hope that helps!!

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Hi there
I have been using MAC mail for a couple of years. My incoming email stopped all of a sudden a few weeks ago. I have deleted and reset my account on a few occassions with settings as supplied by my ISP (tiscali). It is a POP account. I can send email so outgoing server seems OK.
I am able to log in to tiscali webmail and retrieve my incoming email.
It appears as if there is an obstacle at some point. After resetting my mail account, there is a brief recognition of the 70 odd emails in my inbox but mail is uanble to download these.
Any advice very welcome,
Grant
IMAC G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi Grant.
Sometimes messages left on the server clog up the account there, or Mail chokes on a message it cannot download and that prevents it from downloading the rest as well. Solving this problem will probably require deleting one or more messages from the server. What are your Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings for this account?
You may tell Mail to remove from the server all the messages that have already been downloaded doing Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove now. And if the account allows web access, you may also remove messages from the server that way.
Try first removing from the server messages that have already been downloaded. If that doesn’t work, you’ll probably have to delete the first message not downloaded yet. You may want to try to download those messages with another mail client such as Thunderbird first, to avoid losing them -- and use Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to import them back into Mail afterwards if you wish.

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2)   http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=ch_b/0/SmsAuthConfig& answer=185833
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yes, I thought my limits were 20 MB, but I let my client talk me into trying to send it anyway (won't be doing that again). I actually spent some time with the apple tech support person (who was awsome!) and he had me delete some files from my mail folder in the Administrator folder and changed some settings in my mail prefernces.
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