[Evolution] evolution REALLY slow against local courier IMAP server

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper <vR movingparts net>]

For reasons that I won't go into, I've installed courier IMAP on my laptop, and I've evolution (1.4.4) using the localhost IMAP server instead of having it go directly against the Maildirs themselves.  And it is REALLY, REALLY slow.

when I click "send and receive, up pops the "send & receive mail" dialog, and the "Server: 127.0.0.1, Type: imap" progress bar doesn't move, but takes 30+ seconds to go away, and while it is up, I have a "scanning folders in "IMAP server 127.0.0.1" message in the status bar of evo's main window.   WHY?  anyone know??  I would have thought that using a LOCAL (i.e. 127.0.0.1) IMAP server would be very fast.

the same thing happens when I go from one mailbox to another.  

Does anyone have any thoughts on why I might be seeing this really slow behaviour, or how I can fix it?

TIA

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