Slow address completion in Mail.app

Hello all,
Since the middle of last week I suddenly experienced
a extreme slow down of Mail.app address completion,
it take about a minute to type/complete an address even
whenever the completion option is checked in the preferences.
Then Mail.app use nearly all system disk ressources: 'ls' in a terminal
takes forever to complete, safari stops responding, etc... my Mac
is unusable. I got into situation where i couldn't force-quit
or ps/kill -9 any process,... reminiscent of a PC nightmare.
In addition some mail messages are painfully slow to display,
the problem seems to occur on some specific messages and does
not go away when completion is disabled.
This happens it seems, but I am not 100% sure, after I recieved
mails with with strange accentuated charaters and ';' in some
CC addresses.
I go the zombie AddressBookSync problem described
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8380028
starting addressbook then Mail.app as suggested by on user
solved the zombie problem, but not the completion problem
and the system is still somewhat slugish. I got a 4GB 2.4Ghz
imac. Neither my mail nor any disk item substancially increased
last week.
Now there is something strange. I tryed to remove putative
faulty addresse from previous recipient list with
'windows -> previous recipient' but the list is empty, yet
Mail.app does complete the addresses I type! (although it
does it at nerve breaking turtle speed), where are the
completed addresses taken from???
Has any one experience this problem? Any idea?
Thank

Thunderbird does not have this problem, nor does Postbox. Both are now listed under security settings as having address book access. Mail.app is not listed as having access and there's not an option to add it.
Thunderbird (free): http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
Postbox (free for 30 days, $10 to buy): http://postbox-inc.com
Reviews:
http://www.eleven2.com/blog/2012/05/31/top-5-best-e-mail-app-alternatives-to-mac -mail/
http://www.icreatemagazine.com/general/top-5/top-5-alternatives-to-apples-mail-a pp/
http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/communication-roundup/8-awesome-alternatives-to -mail-app-on-your-mac/

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Since the middle of last week I suddenly experienced
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whenever the completion option is checked in the preferences.
Then Mail.app use nearly all system disk ressources: 'ls' in a terminal
takes forever to complete, safari stops responding, etc... my Mac
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or ps/kill -9 any process,... reminiscent of a PC nightmare.
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I go the zombie AddressBookSync problem described
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starting addressbook then Mail.app as suggested by on user
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and the system is still somewhat slugish. I got a 4GB 2.4Ghz
imac. Neither my mail nor any disk item substancially increased
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