Apple Mail 2.0 POP refuses to pull Gmail

I am an Apple tech, but this one is stumping me, my client is using Apple Mail 2.1.3 on Tiger 10.4.11, has been using Apple Mail for years, has a paid pro gmail account, her ISP wanted her to move from their servers because of the spam filtering, yesterday they changed the MX records, I configured the account, she is getting mail now at gmail fine, I can see all messages sent after their MX change, I have configured gmail and my Apple client settings, I can send mail from Apple mail and I know my up and down setting are good as Apples Connection doctor shows OK, I have read and reread AND Googled the problem, gone over gmails - Google Help › Gmail Help › POP› Apple Mail 3.0 20 times and it still refused to pull mail. POP is set correctly on gmail, Status: POP is enabled for all mail
that has arrived since Sep 18, Gmail is picking up all mail and filtering spam beautifully from any account including mail sent to self, It just will not pass it to the Apple mail account, if you hit get mail in the Apple account it looks for about 10 seconds and stops.

Three days ago my mail program searched for my mail to download from various accounts, it would not stop. I have set my accounts up on another MAC computer and they are downloaded fine on that computer ( a friends MAC) From that I deduce the problem is with my mail program? I have deleted the files as you have mentioned and have run disk utility. It starts getting the mail and then does not stop searching. I have to then force quit my mail program. Any ideas to how can repair this? Thanks. Anton

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