I do not want to hijack a thread, but I too have had severe performance impacts with WebKit (reported previously on the list) since it is not multi threaded. I prefer plain text, but as everyone knows, corporate america has succumbed to html for the MS monster (exchange). As far as the difference between local accounts and IMAP accounts, I cannot speak to that - I have not used evo for a local mbox or maildir account in over 15 years, but the WebKit rendering is horrendous. My previous threads to the list show webkit was using a single thread (this on a 3GHz CPU) and taking over 3 seconds to render the email to my display. I know we are at the mercy of WebKit since that was the decision made, but damn - it is quite cumbersome at times.
I would not quite using evo because of this since I would snip those messages that took some time to render afterward before a reply, but the snip takes time as well.
