I'm so glad I'm not alone with this issue! I first posted about it on Feb 25 here on MobileRead (I even posted a video in
this thread). Policy of many forums that I frequent is to avoid opening many new threads so I thought I'd just join an existing discussion thread related to GMail. Turns out that wasn't a good idea.
At the time I couldn't find any reference to this issue here, so I assumed (by the lack of responses) that I was alone with the issue and tried about everything I could think of (connecting to various WiFi routers in multiple places, switching GMail accounts, updating firmware, cleaning all browser settings and history, restoring the reader to defaults)
So while I'm glad the issue is not related to my reader, I'm not sure how can I access email now? Is there an app that would work nicely on PRS-T1 if I rooted the device?