Sending email is very slow.

Even the simplest messages can take forever to send. Sometimes I have to quit mail and try and resend, but even with that it can be very slow to send email. How can I fix this?

I found this in archived discussions. You response was very unhelpful. Thanks anyway.
The solution/fix for me was to use different DNS server ip addresses in 10.5's Network control panel.
Using my ISP's DNS servers, sending email from apple mail 10.5 was slow.
Using the OpenDNS servers - slow.
But if I only used Google's DNS numbers, sending email is fast.
The numbers are: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

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