using gmail with the mac email app

When i first set up my gmail account with the standard email that comes on the Mac i didnt have any problems, as of this morning everything was working fine, now i am not receiving any emails. I have to physically go to gmail.com to get my email. I have tried to take me account offline and then put it online again, i just dont know how to fix it.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Just checked mine ... it's working.

Did u change anything on your Mac this morning; Are all other on-line services working; Any chance Gmail is in the middle of changing something. Of the many times my Mail has played up it is invariably MobileMe doing something. Give it a spell for an hour or 2 and try again.

Collin Bl said:

Did u change anything on your Mac this morning; Are all other on-line services working; Any chance Gmail is in the middle of changing something. Of the many times my Mail has played up it is invariably MobileMe doing something. Give it a spell for an hour or 2 and try again.

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I havent changed anything, everything else is working fine. I dont have MobileMe, but i will continue to wait.

The error i get is :The server returned the error: The connection to the server “imap.gmail.com” on port 993 timed out.

Waiting seems like the best course of action for the moment ...

yamawho said:

Waiting seems like the best course of action for the moment ...

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thanks for your help, i'll wait and see what happens

Gmails iMap has kinks and occasionally will go down. It happens.