My Apple Mail program is stuttering

My mail program is driving me crazy ... I can only type a few words and then it stalls ... if I continue typing, nothing shows on the screen for 3 or 4 seconds, then it all shows up at once, but a few words later it stalls again. If I finish typing and try to correct an error, it won't let me place the cursor for several seconds. This is the only program this is happening with, and it has been going on for several weeks now.
It's a new 27" iMac, running Mountain Lion, 16 GB of memory. Any suggestions?

This is driving me a bit nuts - seems to only happen with Mac Mail.
Command N for New mail - there is a delay if I hit tab a couple times to get from the To to the Body.
Then as I type - the first half dozen or so words appear then the next dozen or so do not - then all at once they appear.
This system is currently on 10.7.5 - 16GB RAM MackBook Pro late 2011.
If I type the following string as a test:
111 222 333 444 555 666 777 888 999 000
what I see on screen is
111 222 333 444 followed by a delay where nothing appears to be happening at all - then the remaining 555 666 777 888 999 000 appears essentialyl all at once.
I have tried the various rebooting and cleaning the index and turning off backgournd apps and disabling add-ons and turning off spell check - nothing seems to be a real solution.
Hopegully I can get up to 10.8 soon and or swpa the HDD for an SSD - my other Macbook Pro with 16GB and SSD usign Outlook has no issue and Mail does not seem to have the same issue - despite having 6 linked email accounts compared to this machines 1 (although this machine uses a gmail account and the other does not).

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