> I'm getting the same thing. I'm running the latest version
> (1.10.4.676) on my MacBook. It gets to 5 minutes until I manually
> check. That's not right . . the whole point of this is so that you
> don't have to check it.
> Hey Goog-masters, any answer on this?

> On Oct 23, 1:36 pm, wjfischer wrote:

> > Glad I'm not the only one this is happening to.  I have been looking
> > all over the place for a "minutesbetweenchecks" type setting, but to
> > no avail.  No luck...I even looked at downloading other programs as a
> > replacement

> > On Oct 23, 2:56 pm, Billy G wrote:

> > > This happened to me on my MacBook as well.  Since the update
> > > installed, I've seen "Checked [4, 6, even 8] min ago".  What annoys me
> > > is that I'm used to getting a notification, checking the new email,
> > > and the notification goes away in the next 60 seconds.  If the
> > > notification displays for up to 8minutes, I keep thinking there's a
> > > new email since the one I've read.  Hopefully Gmail resets it back to
> > > the original, or adds an "minutesbetweencheckssetting" to the Mac
> > > which PC's apparently already have.

> > > On Oct 23, 11:08 am, wjfischer wrote:

> > > > My GmailNotifierfor Mac updated itself last night, and since then it
> > > > has been checking mail every 5minutes, instead of about every 1
> > > > minute like before.  Is there a way to change this back?  I don't want
> > > > to potentially wait 5x as long for the thing to tell me that I have
> > > > mail.