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Hi guys,
I am running Mail 10.7 on OS X 10.9 Maverick, on my iMac 21.5"
I have gone through all the steps involved in setting up my primary Gmail account on Apple Mail. It was working fine for 1-day, and then on the next day, I could receive messages but could no longer send messages. They just sat in my Outbox and the smtp.gmail.com just showed as offline.
So I tried setting up the SAME Gmail account on my MacBook – and no problems there, it works fine.
I have tried a) checking the permissions via the Disk Uility, b) deleting the password from my Keychain Access and c) reinstalling OS X 10.9 – and nothing has helped.
Is anyone having the same problem, and found a solution?
Thanks.

Select Edit SMTP server list from the popup.
Select your account. Click on the Advanced at and enter your password. Check in Connection Doctor under Window in the Menu bar to see if you get green lights for SMTP setting for the account.
It's not uncommon to find extra SMTP servers listed. When you remove account, Mail does not delete. You might need to do some clean up.
Gmail seems to work best in Mavericks is you delete and start clean. See
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