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"Wing, Pak" <pak.wing@capgemini.co.uk> writes:

> One of the problems I'm having is that it takes about 2 mins to get all the
> mail headers ( about 12000 of them - don't ask me how I managed that).

Is it slow the second time you enter the group too?  Nnimap caches
headers and it should almost be as fast as nnml.  It take some time
for Gnus to generate large summary buffers though.