Apple mail won't connect to Gmail server!

I am not sure exactly what has happened. I have a year old MPB that is the glitchiest apple product I've had. Mail slowly stopped connecting to the Gmail server and says my passwords are incorrect. I have checked, rechecked, and even changed my passwords to ensure that the PW is not incorrect. I have three gmail accounts and some of them worked up until today. I cannot tell if this is a mac software issue or a gmail server issue. I've been having some odd issues with my MBP so I would count that out as the culprit. I double checked the files in Library/Preferences against an older backed up version and they seem to be intact.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Mine stopped wotking on the 9th, under the mail app on the left hand side, if you have triangles with ! marks in them, perform a left click and start "Mail Connection Doctor" This may help pinpoing the issue.
Mine is failing at trying to connect on port 143.
This worked for me, go the accounts settings window and in each gmail account enter the following info
Advanced Tab
IMAP Path Prefix enter [Gmail]
If you then tick "Use SSL" this should make the port 993
Authentication shold be set to "password"
Then save these settings, finally email is received, hope this helps.
Let is know how you get on.

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