On Etch 4.0 with Evolution 2.6.3 (with all updates applied). Past 2-3 weeks my pop downloads using evolution have become very slow, when they are going on they are consuming lots of resources. It's really become a serious problem. Can't figure out why this is happening? Any clues? --
Did you perhaps enable the spamassasin plugin? When disabling it on my system, it speeds up at least a thousandfold...