Explain your issue in full detail here:after sucsessfully using imap gmail with outlook express, after shutting down one day, the computer would no longer send or receive my gmail messages with the above quoted error msg. it also states this may happen when the connection was idle for too long.account xxxxx server imap.gmail.com protocol imap server response: temporary sustem error, port 993 secure ssl yes then the above error code. it is not intermittend. i tried with win live mail with same result.