Occasionally MAIL will not retrieve my Gmail

If I do not get any mail for a day on my mac mini, I log into Gmail on their server. The mail is there. This happens maybe once every week or two. I am not changing any settings on either Gmail or my SnowLeopard mail. I tried clicking on "Get Mail" and I can't force it to retrieve the mail. I tried using mail connection doctor and it said "connection and login to server succeeded".

It is a POP account. Actually it is working now. All I changed was a setting in gmail that asked wither you wanted to keep the message on the gmail server after downloading or not. For some strange reason it did not want to delete the old messages from its server, strange.
Thanks Bob

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For a week or so, Mail just will not connect to Gmail. Macbook Pro, Lepoard 5.8.
I tried deleting all accounts and creating them again but I get a message saying that the server is not answering.
This happened suddenly and Mail had been working fine for years... No changes in the Mac, no new software...No known general problem with Gmail. Gmail parameters set to POP as I'm using this instead of IMAP...
So right now All accounts have been deleted and I cannot re-connect....
Latest: even my Yahoo accounts do not work any more now.
Perhaps I should remove Mail and re-install it again ?
If so, how the h..k do I go about it as I'm no computer expert !
Please try not to be too technical as I'm french and do not really master PC language that well ...
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JP/

Hello, Marcredd.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Here are a couple articles that I would start with as they have some helpful troubleshooting steps.
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3276
Gmail account will not connect to Gmail server
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3058
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2976
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Jason H.

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I have no problem connecting to the internet via an external modem.
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Sometimes messages left on the server clog up the account there, or Mail chokes on a message it cannot download and that prevents it from downloading the rest as well. Solving this problem will probably require removing one or more messages from the server. What are your Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings for this account?
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For POP accounts, Mail uses a file within the account folder to keep track of which messages have already been downloaded. Deleting that file causes Mail to treat everything still on the server as if new and try to download it again:
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2. In the Finder, go to the ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/ account folder.
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