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Well I don’t actually use Outlook, but this might work for mail.app as well. The IMAP implementation of Gmail is very slow and constantly syncing different stuff due to the folders/tags discrepancy. It gets to pretty unusable sometimes.

Speed Up Gmail IMAP with Outlook [Microsoft Outlook Tip]: “By setting Outlook to download message headers only, retrieve new messages less frequently, and work offline, your Gmail in Outlook experience can be smoother and faster. What Gmail/IMAP/Outlook techniques are working for you? Let us know in the comments.”

The first thing I definitely recommend is not to sync up the local and gmail draft folders. When you write it’ll continually update your drafts folder and it’ll also somehow fill your gmail with parts of your drafts.

One setting I’ll try to to not store any attachments locally. It’s under the account settings. See if that’ll help.

(Via Lifehacker.)