Just a quick update.
I moved back to version 1.2.2, as supplied with the SuSE distro. No performance problems at all. It seems to be something which has changed in evolution on the way to 1.4.x.
I switched back to 1.4.4.0.200309090601-0.snap.ximian.7.1 immediately afterwards, and the performance is bad again.
Paul
