Mail takes a long time to send messages

After a power outage in my neighborhood and being given new incoming and outgoing mail servers by my ISP -- AT&T and it's Yahoo portal -- Mail is taking a long time to actually send messages after clicking the send button -- a minute or two. Thunderbird sends them immediately.
I've grown fond of Mail. Anybody have any suggestions as to what the problem might be and how I can fix it?
Thanks,
Eric Weir
Message was edited by: EricWeir

I had this problem and just got it fixed so thought I'd post up. I have a gmail account and the problem started 3 or 4 days ago.(no recent system changes or anything I can think of that coincided with the problem) An additional symptom is that Mail wasn't showing me new messages anymore either. I could go onto the web server for gmail and there was new emails waiting but even clicking on "Get Mail" wouldn't bring them into Mail.
I found in the Window tab a choice for Activity and one for Connection Doctor. I brought up Activity first and saw 5 items and nothing seemed to be changing on any of them. Got Connection Doctor up and it connected and said everything was fine (you can bring up details to see what ports and such it uses which confirmed that things were going ok) I went back to activity and hit the "stop sign" for all of the activity that was going on with the plan to just stop everything to try sending a new message. I started from the top and about half way through I heard the Zoom of a message going out (Mail had been working on sending the message for the last few minutes) and suddenly new activities were popping up in the list and processing quickly.
I tried a few test messages and everything is working like normal again. I'm guessing something got stuck and that is causing the slow messages at least in my case. Check it out!
I'm on a iMac with Snow Leopard.

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