Mac Mail slows other apps when first opened...

When I open Mac Mail on OS 10.4 it seems to hog the process time and other apps are affected. I do have about 7 e-mail accounts that I have connection to, like gmail, office mail, etc.
Powerbook G4 12"   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

It shouldn't hog 100% of the process time but with 7 email accounts and if each account is set up to be automatically checked for new mail, the incoming mail server is checked for each account, the spam filter checks each received message along with any other rules created in Mail including sorting for any Smart Mailboxes. If any of the 7 email accounts is an IMAP type account, all server stored messages/mailboxes are also synchronized with the server so quite a bit of activity is going on with the Mail.app when first launched over and above the activity when launched and running.
Do you quit and re-launch the Mail.app often during a normal work day? I generally keep the Mail.app launched and running 24/7 so I haven't noticed the same.

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