Of course you're correct. I missed that reference to googlemail in Green_N's pop3 and smtp settings (I'll blame reading/posting in the early hours of the morning ).
I actually had the correct gmail setting and it still doesn't work.

My full setting are as follows:

Account Tab

Account title*: Account
Retrieve*: Headers only
Retrieval limit*: No limit
Leave messages
on server: Ticked

User Info Tab

Name: ail]name@gmail.com[/email]
User name*: name@gmail.com
Password: password
Email address*: name@gmail.com

Incoming Tab

Incoming server
(POP3)*: pop.gmail.com
Secure
connection: SSL(POP3S)
Port: 995
Use secure
authenthentication: Ticked but grayed out

Outgoing Tab

Outgoing server
(SMTP): smtp.gmail.com
Use secure
authentication: Login
User name: name@gmail.com
Password: password
Secure
Connection: SSL
Port: 465
Use connection
specific SMTP
servers: Unticked
SMTP servers: Edit box grayed out

The Modest wizard suggests most of these options when you enter a new account for gmail with POP so I'm surprised that

• (a) it doesn't work and
• (b) that it doesn't report any errors as to why it's not working .