Mail constantly indexing Gmail account.

Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, and now Lion, Mail constantly indexes my Gmail IMAP account which causes me to get locked out of Gmail for a day. I don't know why this is happening. I've tried to delete the index file, delete and re-add the account, nothing works.
Any ideas?

Did you find a solution for your issue? It sounds like an issue with the SMTP server settings for that email account. If you still haven't resolved this issue, feel free to look at the directions I wrote for another post:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20345791#20345791
Good luck!

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I would suggest that you attempt the troubleshooting steps found in the following article to help you address this issue:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3276
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