Is Mail Still Slow

Hi,
I have just switched over to Mac from PC and have suffered a horrendous speed reduction when downloading or sending mail when using the Mail application that comes with Leopard. I am downloading at between 0 and 5 kb/s. It is not related to attachments as simple text mails download at the same speed. I do not know the speed of download with my old PC but it was not a noticeable problem.
I read on this forum that this seems to be a common problem with Leopard but some of the posts were quite old. Have Apple fixed the problem yet ?
If the problem is Leopard/Mail related would switching to another e-mail application solve the problem e.g Microsoft ?
Thanks

Just a data point.
I use Apple's Mail. I use it to get mail from 3 different, unrelated servers, and I use 2 different ISPs. I do not have the problems you describe.
charlie

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