From the team that brought you Mail Goggles, here comes…Advanced IMAP Controls, a Labs feature that lets you fine-tune your Gmail IMAP experience. You can choose which labels to sync in IMAP — useful if you find your mail client choking on a big [Gmail]/All Mail folder.

Thank you, Google. A thousand times. I’ve settled on funneling all personal e-mail through MobileMe and my Ars address for work, but this is finally the control Gmail users need over IMAP folders that can bring some e-mail clients to their knees.