After installing Snow Leopard, Mail became very slow contacting provider

With Leopard, our Mail on different Macs where very quick to contact the provider. You know what I mean, not sending or receiving the messages, I mean the connection procedure at the beginning. With Snow Leopard this procedure became very slow. Never understood why

HI,
Launch Mac Mail.
From the Menu Bar, click Mail/Preferences.
Make note of your preferences then locate this file.
com.apple.Mail.plist
Move that file to the Trash and restart your Mac.
Also, try repairing disk permissions.
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
And try Mac OS X - Maintenance
Carolyn
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