On 6/26/2020 10:39 AM, David H. Durgee wrote:
I have been using POP3 with most of my email accounts since the
beginning.  For some time now I encounter occasional problems where
automated fetching of new email fails silently.  I only become aware of
the problem when I notice a lack of email and manually request new mail
and get the error messages.  Fixing the problem requires a restart of
SeaMonkey.

I have never seen a similar problem with the accounts using IMAP.  I can
access the accounts currently using POP3 via IMAP.  Can I simply change
my server settings for those accounts from POP3 to IMAP, or would this
cause problems?  IN case this makes a difference I am using 64 bit
2.53.2 on 64 bit linux mint 18.3 here.

David, I don't think you can change the e-mail server type in an existing SeaMonkey's email account. I'd just make a new mail account in SeaMonkey instead of changing the server name in the old account. In my SeaMonkey, I have two accounts for the same e-mail service with two different e-mail server addresses for IMAP and POP3.
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