But I still think the fact that I get the "imap read: ..." dance
counting up to 27K *twice* when I do `M-G' and receive no messages is
highly suspicious.

> To find out what causes slowness for small data, you must tcpdump or
> ethereal the stream to see which side is delaying the transfer, or if
> it is the network that has high latency.  ELP data isn't that useful
> in this case.

Maybe I'll try that stuff later today if I can figure it out, thanks.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com