IMAP Gmail account won't work properly

Today my gmail account (which I have been using for about 4 years with os x mail) has just been spinning as though its retreiving mail for hours and hours.
I opened the activity window in mail to see what was going on and its just "fetching new mail: updating offline disk cache", "syncing trash" and "copying messages"... along with "syncing with server" and "communicating with server".
I have no idea what its doing.
Meanwhile I've received emails (which I checked on gmails site) but they havent come into osx mail.
Please help because I don't have unlimited internet and its already used 2.5gb to do this and its still going.
Please help
Thanks

That image you posted Dave8 is almost identical to what is happening to me.
I've tried all the fixes and nothing has changed. Still churning away seemingly doing nothing while I waste my months internet usage.
Something similar has happening to another account within mail.app 4.2 where my Yahoo POP account has just stopped receiving anything... I can still send though on yahoo.
This probably is a completely different issue but it seems a coincidence that both have happened within a few days of each other.
Very bizarre.
I have posted about the yahoo issue today too but no-one has got back to me yet.
ps I have another 2 accounts in mail which are still working fine
The issue with the gmail account happened after I attched a bunch of photos and sent them... but one of the emails had too many photos and my computer ran out of batteries after.
Since then its been doing weird things.
Anyway, I don't want to use a 3rd party client.
Please help
Thanks

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