What can I do to get Mail to connect to my 2 mail servers?

Like many others, I set up Apple Mail with my email connection details at gmail, and it worked fine, it downloaded 1200 emails and worked. Then I wanted to change from pop3 to IMAP to get more interaction with the Gmail server through Mail. So then Mail couldn't connect anymore  and when I played around it dumped all those emails and since then it does not want to connect to gmail.
I have tried re-entering the account details through System Settings
Opening Keychain and deleting all Gmail account details and starting again
Opening terminal and using this:  telnet imap.gmail.com 993. It spits out the details to say that gmail is there but it can't connect
Doing everything again.
Doing nothing for 2 months and trying again.
So this is the "known bug" that Apple may fix in a couple of years. great.
By the way, I use another app called Airmail to access my mail on this machine, but would probably prefer to use Mail to integrate with Callender and Contacts. Airmail is a very nice app to use. I am philosophical about whether this will ever be fixed. So far it is the only BADDDD thing about Apple, since changing over early this year, so I actually I really like "A".
Cheers

Ok, I won't argue about whether its a bug or an issue or ignorant users (me)
System Preferences>Internet Accounts
So with Gmail account NAME: I put in my wife's name and my name P & R
                         Password:     P_________89
                         Description   Google
At mail.google, I have enabled IMAP and disabled pop.
I know there are other details about ports somewhere but have forgotten how to access, or maybe I can't because it can;t connect.
"There was a problem with the account. An unknown error occurred"

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