Email will not download from server

Emails will not download into the mail program; they appear to be stuck between the server and the program. This has been a continuous problem that has been intermittent however, it is getting worse. All of the emails have been deleted from the mail box, there are still 20 out on the server yet when I open the mail and click "get mail" in goes through the actions like it is downloading them (counts them) and then "beeps" but nothing.

I don't know if it matters or not, I am operating an iMac with OS version of 10.5.4. HELP PLEASE! I am really getting tired of this!

imac, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Aug 17, 2009 2:51 PM

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Oct 27, 2009 5:39 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

I think the problem is fixed!

When I called my ISP on Saturday, they had me make a change to their incoming mail server address. Big duh on their part--my original ISP, Harbornet, was bought a year ago by the current ISP, Rainier Connect, but they never had me change the incoming mail server address from mail.harbornet.com to mail.RainierConnect.com. I had called them several times about this download problem!! arrrrrggggh

So, thank you very much for responding. So far so good!

Oct 27, 2009 8:16 PM in response to lahgitana

I had this problem with my university mail account. I found Mail was tripping up on the first message it was trying to download and not downloading anything after that. So I deleted the first message in my university account then clicked the getMail button and the other messages came through straight away.
The only difference i could see between the first message and the others was that it was over 1MB and the others weren't. Not sure if this is a Mail issue or my university server had a problem (currently trying to find out). If it is a Mail issue i did see an option in the accounts menu to skip over a message of a size that you can specify. Haven't tried this but might work.
Hope this helps.

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