Repeatedly mac mail corrupt with gmail

Hi,
On a client's macair with IOS 10.9.2 he uses Mac Mail, with 4 mail accounts. Two are simple POP accounts. Two are IMAP accounts sync with business Google Gmail accounts. Three times in the past 6 weeks one of his Gmail accounts (e.g. [email protected]) becomes corrupt where Mac Mail does not send.emails and stops showing new incoming email. Just this one Gmail account. Mail continues to work OK from other devices with this account loaded (e.g. iPhone, one other machine with this account loaded or via browsers).
Connection Doctor, Rebuilds do not resolve the issue. Plenty of free space on the unit.
To fix it I remove this account then add it (as new) again. Then all works well for a week or two. Fortunately as an IMAP account no emails or information is lost. About 2.04 GB in this account, so it takes time to re-download.
So what s the underlying issue and what do I do to prevent this from recurring? Help!
Thanks

update. Maverick Version is 10.9.4, Mail is V 7.3
Within Mail, going to Mailbox, Sync shows just this one account greyed out.

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