Apple mails needs ages to send mails

Hi,
I am using apple mail as a pop3 client for my yahoo mails. I was wondering why my mails were received by the recipients hours later or not at all.
I made a test and set up a mailaccount at googlemail.com and I found out:
a mail from yahoo.de directly at yahoomail was sent immediately to google mail.
a mail from the yahoo-account in applemail did not found its way yet.
Does anybody know if this is a general problem, or if the settings in applemail are wrong?
Thanks.

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