One of my friend also faced similar issue,he used gmail account and opened new paypal account but he got activation email after 2 hours.
I am using GMail for paypal purpose, it's okay. If you got problem you can not figure which one failed to do it's tasks. GMail problem or Paypal fail to send email ?
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that Gmail is now using DKIM to decide whether to accept PayPal and eBay messages. There should be no problem in most cases, but if your forwarding server breaks the authenticating signature, then the messages will be rejected. You can make sure that your server is correctly configured for forwarding DKIM authentication, or you can configure eBay to send directly to the Gmail account. Here's some additional information: http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&hl=en&resnum=1&ncl=1226...