Mail always asking for password

hello,
i have a new macbook where i run mail.app around the clock using a gmail imap account. all works well except about once a day a small window will appear asking me to enter my password. this is a problem because until i enter my password mail will stop retrieving my emails while waiting for me. and anyways mail.app already has my password in account setup i don't know why it's asking me again?
are there any solutions for this? thank you very much.
rick

thanks for the reply,
yes i've also been reading where the problem is with the connection rather than with mail. i've also read that setting the check for new mail to 5min is better than lowering it to 1min which is what i did. thanks for the input!
rick

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