I'm helping a friend out with her email on her laptop as she is fairly new to all this and she has a GMail account that I have sucessfully managed to get working in Outlook 2007. She also has a domain name that at the moment she is using just for sending emails which was also set up correctly yesterday and she was able to send email from it.

The problem is that she has had to go back to GMail on the web as the following has occurred.

"Things aren't sending from Outlook as the IMAP connection closes down if it's not used for a bit. I've closed down Outlook and logged back in to no avail."

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be and how to stop it? I did a search on Google (& here) and there are mentions of this problem but no suggestion as to how to fix it.

Thanks in advance.