Mail stalls intermittently

On every other day Mail will stall. The Mail activity bar will sometimes partially complete its progression then stall; at other times it reaches the limit of its progression and then stalls. On some occasions if I wait a while, Mail will mysteriously resume, but on most occasions, I must force quit which always takes an extended period of time (most of an hour, sometimes more), because the active application indicator remains lit during this waiting period after force quit, and Mail remains unavailable until the indicator disappears. Quite often, due to the constraints of time, I have had to shut the iMac off and restart. I don't dare use the Apple Menu Shut Down, because the spinning gear will spin interminably as if the iMac is stuck on some process and won't let go. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have a resolution for this problem? Thanks in advance for your help.

It happens to me. 10.5.7 here and suddenly it has been three or four days that Mail stalls for like a min or two. If I click on the dock icon, for example, sometimes I have to wait for about a minute before it jumps to the right "space" or any other action (quitting, creating a new message....etc).
I have tried to quit it and reopen it, but nothing changed. After about an hour or even a bit less, it stalls again. then it resumes and stalls back continously
Nothing appears to be done in the activity window... no task, no action. The connection is fine (10 Mbps) and my Mac Pro is healthy and full of RAM so it doesn't seem to have any external reason.
Any suggestions?
I have repaired all my permissions... no change with that.
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