Slow loading Ximian

Hi Has anyone been using Ximian 1.2.1 for a few months and noticed a degradation in performance when loading up. I'm having a startup time of 3mins with the hard disk permanently on reading something. I think it is Ximian data file(s) causing the long delay in starting up but I'm not sure howto check what is wrong. Once it's started it runs ok. In top the CPU usage is really low when retrieving mail 3.9% CPU. In /home/funky/evolution/local/linux/subfolders/Suse-linux-e I noticed mbox file is 11Mb is that the answer that it is quite large? I'm at a lost as to why startup is so slow. Dre -- arawak