Hotmail to Mac Mail import taking days

I do have a ton of Hotmail messages in my Inbox (about 15,000), and am trying to import them into Mail. It is importing them, but only at a rate of about 1 per every 5 minutes. At this rate, it will take months to import them. Is there any faster way? The status in the bottom left under Mail Activity says it's importing about 5KB/s, although it really is much slower. Please advise.
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I am having the same problem with my gmail account. Did you ever get any resolution for this?

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