Apple Mail send but cannot recieve

I've got a Macbook with a Snow Leopard running on it. Apple Mail sometimes has troubles to connect to gmail server to recieve new messages. On the other hand, I don't have problems to send even if I can't recieve.
I don't know what causes the problem but it solves itself when I reboot the machine. Any ideas of why is this happening? I've got Apple Mail v.4.6
Thanks!!

This may not help, but a few months ago I was trying to send a message to members of my professional organization, but kept getting a similar message. I exchanged correspondence with Tech Help at my server to no avail. I thought the problem might have to do with the quantity of receoients, so I started deleting a few at a time from the list and resending. All of a sudden, it worked!
I finally narrowed it down to one address that had been preventing the message from going out. After I deleted and exactly retyped the address, I never had another problem. Never understood what had happened.
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