From The Register's article:
"Google grappled with erratic Gmail behavior this morning for a "significant subset" of users who receive their mail via POP from external mail providers into Gmail.
The company posted notice on its Apps Status Dashboard that users were experiencing "error messages and/or other unexpected behavior" when attempting to fetch their incoming mail at about 9:40 am PST (5:40 pm GMT) ....."
pointing to page http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm=1&di=1&hl=en |