Outgoing Mail is SLOW....

Hi,
My mail program sends my email at a really really slow rate. Like almost a minute for it to be sent. Other mail programs work fast. I like the Mail App. I thought I had read there is something you can do or check to increase the outgoing speed of email. Can anyone please help. Thank you.

There are two different speed issues here. The first is the speed of your internet connection, which controls how fast an email is sent after the sending actually starts. You say other mail programs are working fast so I assume your upload speed is OK.
The second part that is probably your problem is a delay that sometimes happens after you tell the program to send the mail. I've had problems with earlier versions of Leopard and Mail in this regard. The fix for me, when I used to have the problem was to add to the DNS settings in System Preferences/Network/Advanced/DNS
You can use the ones that OpenDNS offers - 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
https://www.opendns.com/start/
If this helps the problem then it would be a good thing to tell us more about your internet connection - ISP, Router or Modem Models, Wired or Wireless etc, to see if there is any setting that can be adjusted in your hardware.
Hope this helps.

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