[Evolution] gmail via smtp kills evolution

[William Murray <W J Murray rl ac uk>]

  Hello all,
             I tried to configure evo 2.22 to use my gmail account. This
has 63000 emails, 3Gb, in 1 folder. (Google are good at searches,
right :)
     However, evo reads about 6% and then times out. This is on an
excellent high-bandwidth link). Does anyone expect it to be able to 
have problems with the size?
          Thanks,
              Bill