Apple Mail will not work at my office

I have Mail setup to receive my gmail email and it works perfectly...when I'm not on my office's network (at work obviously). It may be an office thing, but is there any way I can get Mail to receive my email when I'm at work?
OSX 10.5.5
Mail 3.5
Macbook Pro (early 2008)

Hi there... I have the same problem. My MBP works fine at home, but at work Mail does not connect, nor can I use MobileMe to update my iWeb website. What is up with the work setup that causes this to happen?? Internet and Entourage with an exchange account work fine at work when I switch to my Work location, which is behind a proxy server (with 8080 as it suffix).
The error message in Mail is:
There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Check the settings for account “.Mac” or try again.
The server error encountered was: The server “mail.mac.com” cannot be contacted on port 993.
When I try to publish my website I get a login window for MobileMe then "an error was returned from the server. Please try again later"
As I said, when I go home with the same computer and take the proxy settings off, everything works fine.
I know this may have something to do with the network at my work, but I am the ONLY person with a Mac, and the IT guy has no clue about whats up (and doesn't care).
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