Mac mail not sending Gmail email

Infrequently my Mac mail would be rendered incapable of sending email.

It appears the Mac mail client could not connect to the outgoing Gmail SMTP server, smtp.gmail.com, then after a few hours the connection would be restored automatically.

I assumed that my settings must be fine as they remained constant, it must be a problem on the Gmail servers end, but it was happening too often for that to be plausible.

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