Why is Apple Mail so slow?

I use Apple mail to access my gmail account. Every time I open up this program, there's a circle (similar to the circle you have on the gray screen at start up) next to the inbox icon to indicate that it's loading my mail. It's there for like 10 minutes. Then, when I actually want to check my mail, I click on a new mail and I get the colored circle which indicates that it's thinking. After a while I get fed up and just log on to gmail directly. Is something wrong with my computer or is Apple mail just slow for everybody?

Did you upgrade to Tiger on this Mac from a previous OS X version, and if so, where you using the Mail.app with the previous OS X version?
If so, the mbox file structure was changed with Tiger Mail, and when upgrading to Tiger from a previous OS X version, there are some left over mbox files for each mailbox from the previous Mail.app version which are no longer used, but are not deleted after the conversion to the new mbox filing structure for each mailbox is completed.
If you didn't upgrade to Tiger from a previous OS X version on this Mac, have you tried using the Rebuild Mailbox function on the problem mailboxes? If not, be sure to create a backup of your Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail with the Mail.app quit before doing so before using the Rebuild Mailbox function.

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