I certainly do remember you Jason; thanks for the comment. I was considering a trial of the Google Apps Premier account, but I’d rather resolve it with the Standard Gmail account. Based on what you’re saying that might be the right choice. :) Looks to be an issue specific to Mac Mail in my case; just posted an update last night.

Hi Kevin,

Don’t know if you remember me, but I blog at one of your old stomping grounds – Download Squad. Anyway, before you jump into a Google Apps Premier account, I wanted to warn you that I’m experiencing exactly the same symptoms you describe – in my Google Apps Premier account.

The company I work for runs on Google Apps, and strangely, nobody else at my office that I’ve spoken to seems to be experiencing the same issue. I’m a heavy IMAP user, and it could be that heavy IMAP use (as you are also doing) is causing the delay for some reason.

To be fair, my free personal Gmail account is actually an even heavier-volume account and I use IMAP with it as well, and it seems to be keeping up just fine. Weird stuff.

Kevin, you may want to try signing up for the 30-day trial of Google Apps Premier edition. You can then use email migration tools to automatically pull all of your email over via IMAP. It even keeps existing folders as labels and works very well. It took around 12 hours for it to move 850+ MB of email dating all the way back to 1994 for me (over 35,000 conversations, who knows how many messages).

It even has error reporting and tells you what it can’t pull over and why. Out of all of that, I only had 5 messages it couldn’t pull over. Pretty impressive. You can always cancel out of the trial after you migrate, but definitely give the migration tool a try.

Also, I’ve been lucky and haven’t noticed the slowdowns you mention. However, I ended up keeping my premier account which has the guaranteed uptime, so that may be part of it.

I recently had some serious issues with my ISP, so I signed up for the free Google Apps and moved all my email over to it. Thus far, I haven’t had any issues and I’ve moved 8 years worth of email over (all my Inbox and Sent Items annual archives, including attachments and such). The move of the email took a good bit… but all was complete over three days and now I’m not seeing any issues at all. I also IMAP my mail down to my iPhone and emails are arriving to both in pretty much realtime.