Outgoing mail is REEEEEEALLY SLOW

I am transferring from Tiger to a new computer running ML . . outgoing mail is fine on my old computer. But on the new one, it's painfully horribly SLOW! "Barber pole' just spins and spins as it tries to connect to the outgoing server. FINALLY the mail gets sent. These are simple text emails with no attachments! All the settings in the new email account are exactly as they are in the old one.....
Apple says it's not their problem, the internet provider says they don't support Apple products and want to charge me a yearly fee for their tech support!
Internet connection in general is fine
Any ideas? please? All this money for a new computer and it works worse than the old one!

Hi there!! same case here, and I AM REALLY MAD AND DISAPPOINTED with all this, coz i just bought this expensive supposedly perfect Macbook, and i just get troubles everyday, and no one seems to give any solution to the slowest outgoing mail in the history!!! Will somebody from the Mac team have the guts to say something?? Is going to stay like this for how long??? fed up!!!!!

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