Apple Mail won't connect to Gmail

My Apple Mail 4.5 has been working fine up until a couple of weeks ago. I don't know what happened, but now it won't connect to Gmail. It says something like port 993 time out? I've been searching online to find solutions, but none of them seems to work. I can still log in thru webmail and I've already checked to see if my POP and IMAP are enabled in Gmail settings. Please help Apple Geniuses. Thanks.

Anything here help?
Routing gmail through Mail.app:
imap-http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81379&topic=12814
pop-http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275&topic=12810

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