Trying to set up mail with my gmail account

if gmail cannot work then using my yahoo account?

I believe this may be a limitation of GMail. When I first set up a GMail POP account it took quite a long time for it to download everything that was in my GMail account as it kept getting the messages in small groups like you are describing. I just set Mail to check for new messages every minute and left it alone for a long time.

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