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I've been having major issues with Apple Mail (Leopard) and Gmail IMAP. It is very slow, and some messages don't even get delivered!

This is a brand-new virgin MacBook Pro.

I'll stick to Thunderbird -- it's very fast at handling IMAP from my Gmail Account.
 
I've been having major issues with Apple Mail (Leopard) and Gmail IMAP. It is very slow, and some messages don't even get delivered!

This is a brand-new virgin MacBook Pro.

I'll stick to Thunderbird -- it's very fast at handling IMAP from my Gmail Account.
Interesting. I use Mail.app on my MBP and Thunderbird on my PC. I find that Mail.app is faster than TBird getting IMAP mail.
 
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