Mail doesn't send messages

Alright. I upgraded to Leopard and now my mail is acting oddly. I can compose a new message, I can "send" it, and mail says it has sent and moves the message from the Outbox to the Sent box. So I was assuming all my emails were being sent. Then I found out they are not reaching their destination. So to try this out, I sent 2 simple test messages to myself (from one email address to the other and vice versa). Mail "sends" the message and all, but I never receive the test messages. I checked the ports in the preferences and they are correct. I receive messages from other people fine, but mine don't send out. Any ideas? Thanks.

I did the same thing because I wanted to see what the new html-ish mail looked like. So I sent a message to my son and cc'd myself. It took nearly 6 hours for the mail to be delivered, but I got it.
Now, I don't believe for a second that that has anything to do with Leopard. Once the mail is out of the outbox, it's really sent - how our respective mail servers process it is all together a different thing. I have had similar experiences while using non-Leopard machines from time to time.
It is odd, though.
-H

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