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This past week we've been getting complaints from clients that mail sent to us gets returned with a message saying it is unable to be delivered and will be retried. Eventually these emails arrive, sometimes 2, even 24 hours after being sent - not exactly the best advertisement for responsive customer service!
The common factor seems to be that they are all from Gmail-hosted accounts. I see there have been other threads on this subject, such as <a href = "https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5029574?start=0&tstart=0">this post </a>, which may provide a clue. I'm running 10.5.8 Server 1.1, on a Quad G5, with spam and virus protection on, and tried turning it off to see if it helped. Inconclusive, but I got a lot of spam!
My hunch is that Gmail is expecting a server response within a certain short timeframe and ours times out. But you can't take on city hall, and it's up to our server to provide a timely response to Google, which should be totally possible on a fairly fast machine on 100Mbps fibre, even from here in NZ.
I'd appreciate any thoughts.

I don't know whether this will help any of you having the problem with Gmail, but we were able to resolve our issue by deleting a bunch of emails in the inbox, around the date that the email stopped coming in. It seems there was a corrupted file in the inbox, throwing things of for Mail (though not the iphone, as mentioned above).
How I got to the bottom of this was I set Entourage to receive emails from the att.net account. As happened in Mail, the emails stopped coming in around Feb 11, but we were able to send with no problem. Unlike Mail, however, Entourage provides an error code when it runs into a problem (in our case -16999, if I remember correctly). I searched on the code and found a discussion somewhere which named a corrupted file as the problem. It turned out to be our problem.
So even if it's not the same problem, perhaps you could try setting up Entourage (if you have it) or another email program that supplies error codes, and hopefully this will give you a clue to investigate further. Good luck!

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