I can't reproduce this bug any more either. I just downloaded the same 1Mb email in both sylpheed and evolution and sylpheed was slightly faster than evolution if anything.
Please reject this bug! -- sylpheed is very slow downloading attachments from gmail.com https://launchpad.net/bugs/29854 -- universe-bugs mailing list universe-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs