The imap.gmail.com site is currently down. According to the first mentions of an issue on Twitter, the server has been down for around two hours, while website monitoring service Down Right Now says Gmail has experienced issues for the past three hours. The Gmail service itself — mail.google.com – is unaffected and working as usual.
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The alternative connection — Gmail’s POP server — is working as usual but, since Google actually encourages its users to connect their accounts to mail clients using IMAP, the outage is likely to affect a substantial number of people.
Source: TNW