Mac mail on desktop reaaly slow fetching emails

i have another mail account for my wife with .mac and for some reason on her mini mac is very very slow bringing in emails... if i go to activity viewr its seems to take ages downloading mail, tranering mailboxes and syncing etc.. and i mean slowwww. she only has 52 e-mails in her box... any ideas?

Solved the mystery. I just wasn't seeing it before. The contact info on two different contacts was somehow, accidentally altered to include my .mac email as their work email. Since they came before me in the address book, they showed up under their home email address. I removed the errant email info and the problem was solved.
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