Gmail sending error really sucks!

[tsperez]

Can't Microsoft or Google (a couple of rather large companies) fix the problem of Gmail sending quitting every so often? I have tried everything and I still get this error.
I think I found when it happens and it's many times at the worst time! I was trying to get a lot of e-mails out before leaving my house so I'm typing away and deleting the old messages as I go. I think it did the first e-mail ok but then I got the dreaded "Can't send the e-mail ... make sure you are connected...blab,blab, blab".
Only cure is to delete the account and thus losing all your outbox e-mails and creating it again. Then you wait for the download and when that is done I go back to correct the "misspelled" gmail.com domain cus I am ocd about this.
Does anybody know of a fix or work around? The Microsoft patch does nothing to address this. I download a week's worth of emails but I keep a copy on the server. I like being able to work on my e-mail offline like when I have no service (Sprint). Btw, I set it up IMAP.

TIA,
tsp - Sprint