Checking mail in other accounts?

[Agunat]

I have both a Gmail account and an email address provided me by Cox Cable, my internet provider, call it x...@cox.net.  For years I have had my Gmail import mail going to the xyz account to show in addition to the email sent directly to my Gmail address.  Gmail has done this fine without incident.  For some reason today the mail addressed to the xyz account is not showing up in Gmail.  I went to my Gmail settings under the Accounts heading and looked at the section labeled "Check for mail in other accounts".  All the settings were accurate.  I did notice that it said "last checked 17 hours ago"!  I clicked the link that said "Check mail now".  When I did this all the missing xyz email showed up.  This indicates to me that indeed all the settings for the other account are indeed correct.  HELP PLEASE!  Can anyone tell me why Gmail has stopped checking this account on its own?  As I say it has been doing it this way for years with no problems.

Thanks in advance... Bob

[Agunat]

I don't know how or why but it is working fine again.

Bob

[Zack (Doc)]

Bob,

GMail states that it checks the account on a variable frequency depending on the volume collected.  So, if it was seeing very low volume, it would stretch out the checks to a longer interval.  Also, if it encounters some error when checking, it backs off and delays the next check.  It's possible that some combination of these factors got you out to the 17 hour mark; perhaps even permanently pausing the checks.  When you manually checked, all variables got reset.

Glad it's working again.

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