For what it's worth, I can confirm that Gmail IMAP legitimately is unbearably slow for some of us (conversely, the web interface has always been snappy for me,

For what it's worth, I can confirm that Gmail IMAP legitimately is unbearably slow for some of us (conversely, the web interface has always been snappy for me, though I know it's been terribly slow for some). To the point that I gave up on keeping my email in sync and used POP on my desktop for years.