Major delays in receiving emails

I have been experiencing serious delays in receiving emails at my .mac account. I have seen a number of other people post about this problem, but none of those threads contains an answer, unfortunately! (And all of those topics are now archived so I can't add to them.) What I discovered from those threads is that this problem has nothing to do with the .mac server status. When I check my mail via webmail, I can see all the mail in there without delay, but it's when I try to use the mac mail program that I experience delays. One person will email four times in the same hour, and I will receive two of those emails immediately, and the the other two won't show up for another 12 hours. I use this mail account for my business, but I won't be able to continue doing so if I can't figure this out...
Those other people were experiencing this problem in Jan/Feb/March/April... I just started experiencing this problem a few weeks back. Some days it's fine, but most days at least 5-10 of my emails are delayed by 6-12 hours.
Thanks for any help!
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