Javamail performance

Question

I\'ve been using javamail to retrieve mails from IMAP server (currently GMail). Javamail retrieves list of messages (only ids) in a particular folder from server very fast,

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is a Javamail issue as much as it may be a Gmail issue. I have an application that retrieves mail from a number of sources, including Gmail, and Gmail is definitely the slowest. The Javamail api is pretty straightforward, but it would be hard to make suggestions without seeing what you are currently doing.