Mail weirdness with Snow Leopard L2TP VPN?

I'm new to Snow Leopard Server. I've set up Mail and the L2TP VPN on my server at home. The server is connected to a Time Capsule and NATed by the Time Capsule (which is connected to a DSL box
providing a static IP). When I'm on my Mac in the office, I can easily connect in to the VPN. I've set up my Apple Mail client there to get Mail from the server machine at home but Mail seems very strange. It will take forever to load a message when you click on it sometimes. Other times, when you attempt to send a message it will complain that the authentication to the mail server at home failed (even though it authenticated successfully several minutes earlier). Looking at the activity window and the connection doctor (with details logged) it appears to be contacting the mail server, getting information, then stopping for long periods of time, then resuming what it was doing, etc. I have no problem with the VPN when doing AFP operations (copying files to and from work and home). Web is a bit slow, but the main problem is mail.
Can anyone suggest avenues to explore in troubleshooting this problem? One thing to note - I've also used OpenVPN to connect back to the server instead of the L2TP VPN and I don't have this problem so it appears to be some odd conflict with using Apple Mail over the Apple VPN but I can't figure out why.

No - the OpenVPN client doesn't use L2TP it uses an SSL mechanism. L2TP works fine, it's just
mail that exhibits weirdness. I've been tracing the IMAP exchanges when this happens and it
looks like it may have something to do with disk activity but I need to investigate further.
I'm not having any problems connecting with L2TP at all. Probably that's because I don't have
the newer (late 2009) Time Capsule with the firmware that's causing all the problems with VPN
(my Time Capsule is an earlier version that can't run that firmware).

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