Sending issue with Mac Mail

I use Mac Mail for all my accounts and I am having an annoying issue with my Yahoo Mail. About 75% of the time, it sends right when I hit send, but then 25% of the time, the send icon just has the spinning wheel and nothing goes through and I don't see the outgoing bar in the bottom left. Eventually, I get an error message that it didn't send and if I hit Try Later, it usually sends. If I shut down Mail and re-start it, the messages in the Outbox then send right away.
My settings are all correct as it does send most of the time before getting hung up.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anything i can do besides switching to Outlook or Entourage? I don't want to do that as I have read MobileMe does not work with Outlook.
Thanks for any help,
SJ

I have the same problem. Around one time in five the gear will spin, no blue progress bar shows, nothing shows up in the Outbox or Sent box. My solution is to quit Mail and relaunch it immediately. Now any of the following may happen:
1) It may show in the Sent box, having actually been sent successfully (this is rare).
2) It will show in the Outbox and Mail tries to send it automatically, in which case it may or may not go normally; if not I have to go thru the quit/boot cycle again.
3) It will show in the Outbox and I have to send it again manually, in which case it will probably go normally; if not I have to go thru the quit/boot cycle again.
At least it won't be lost.
It is not my account settings. It is intermittent. I think it started after I upgraded to 10.6.7 (I can't remember if that is when I got Mail 4.5)
This is clearly a bug and I wish Apple would fix it.

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