Mac Mail: Gmail IMAP Connectivity Error

Hi,
"The server returned the error: The server “imap.gmail.com” cannot be contacted on port 993"
I am having this error when connecting to my google gmail accounts via IMAP. It works on and off. Mostly the symptom occurs after waking up from sleep mode. It started with Maverciks, but got worse with latest 10.9.2 release. Quitting the Mac Mail and restarting it fixes it.
It is getting very annoyying as the frequency of this issue has gone up.
ramana.

I also have this problem with paid Google Apps service using Mail.app on 10.9.1.
The syncranisation is very slow, and during the sync process the mail application is not responsive and Inbox does not show any new mail that has come in.
Performing a packet capture ("netstat -na | grep .993" to find IP address of Gmail server connected), and then runnning "sudo tcpdump -w ~/Desktop/gmail host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" shows that in 20 minutes, total amount of data transferred to/from Gmail is only 1.6 Megabytes!
The "All Mail" folder is disabled for IMAP under Gmail settings. There is a lot of mail on Gmail (6GB), but Mail.app has already 11GB of data in the accounts ~/Library/Mail/V2/[email protected]@imap.gmail.com folder.
Mail.app -> Window -> Activity shows very slow "Adding Messages"
It looks like the users which have less than 2GB of mail, do not seem to be affected.

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