Why does my mail keep getting knocked offline?

About every 5 or 10 minutes my mail gets knocked offline. The window pops up asking me to re-enter my password. I put in the password and ask it to remember, or I can cancel it. Same result about 5 minutes later it does it again. I have to go in to "get mail" to get back on line. My wife shares the same dsl line (thru a router) with her p.c. and is not having any problems.
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SBC is having problems with some of their incoming mail servers, not all.
If you call SBC, they will tell you OS X and the Mail.app isn't supported and this is an OS X or Apple Mail problem only.
Baloney.
SBC's server problems are affecting Windows and Mac users with various email clients so you need to ask SBC when they expect to have their server problems resolved. Knowing what I've heard abount SBC, they will tell you it will be fixed sometime today which they have told countless other customers over the last several weeks. It appears SBC still hasn't resolved their server problems.

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