Leopard Mail and Gmail

[LuKreme]

Since enabling gmail's IMAP I am often seeing Mail.app processing vast  
quantities of mail, often taking several hours and sometimes never  
finishing at all.

What I see is something like this:

<http://home.kreme.com/Leopard_Mail/100K_mails.png>
<http://home.kreme.com/Leopard_Mail/200K_mails.png>

(These are at the same time).

Now, mail is NOT in fact downloading 100,000 messages, and this thread  
will trundle along at <4K/s basically forever, once it starts.

I'm seriously considering just taking gmail back to POP3 since it is  
ONLY gmail that exhibits this behavior.

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