So, gmail is still down, and has been for us for around an hour. At this point I had to find another solution. To fix your gmail or at least fetch your mail setup a local email client to grab it via imap from google.
incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com use ssl, port 993
outgoing mail server : smtp.gmail.com use authentication port 465 or 587
account name: your full email address ie whoever@gmail.com
email address: your gmail email address ie whoever@gmail.com
password: your gmail password