Copernicus: hm, that is worrying but it still does not explain why it is so slow.

Anyway, I treid forwarding my mail to a new address and modest is reasonaly fast with a account with 40 mails or so. It has the disadvantage that all mails are unread - even those I read on my computer, which is almost all of them.

I am using the online interface of gmail, opera handles it just fine (and it is much faster), but it would still be nice to have offilne messages and working fat client on N900. Anyway, I do not suppose anyone is working on this so I will stick with the web interface for the time being.