Sending mail Soooooooo Slow

I can recieve emails without problemsbut sending via my POP email takes an interminably long time. It site there saying sending and will STILL be doing that through at least two of my iphone sleep cycles. Eventually it will get sent but why would it betaking so long to do so?
I have reconfigured my email prefs a number of times and even restored iPhone software but no change in this behavior.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

IT WAS AT&T ALL ALONG!

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Sending mail very slow

Besides the notebook described below in the signature I have a MacBook right next to it. On both, the same three email accounts are configured exactly the same. One account is the IMAP MobileMe (aka .mac) account. The other two are POP accounts, for one of which I have a digital certificate. When I send mail through that account, it can take up a minute before the "busy" icon next to the Sent mailbox for the account disappears and the "whoosh" sound is heard. On the MacBook, the same mail is sent almost instantly. The digital certificate is in a password-protected part of my keychain, so on both notebooks I am prompted -- with almost no delay between pressing the Send button and receiving the prompt -- for that password before the actual send operation begins.
By the way, both notebooks are connected wirelessly to the same Apple AirPort Extreme, so I suspect that the problem is unrelated to the network infrastructure.

Hello Niken:
I fixed a similar problem by using OpenDNS.
http://www.opendns.com/
I think the problem might have been with my ISP, but using open DNS solved the slow mail transmission on both of my macs.
Barry

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An issue with DNS can arise when sending via the SMTP, and it will likely be different for different ISPs. To confirm this is the problem, please prepare two new messages for sending, before sending either of them. Then click to send the first one, and as soon as you hear the swoosh that it has gone out, click to send the second one. If the second goes out almost instantaneously, then it is correctable with a change in DNS.
Two citations, different approaches, but really both addressing DNS:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9641256&#9641256
and
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8974547&#8974547
This happened for many people with the beginning of Mail 3 in Leopard, but some may only experience in Snow Leopard and Mail 4.x.
Two recent experiences people had can be found at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11962726&#11962726
and
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12099641#12099641
I am not sure how to advise you in New Zealand, but your ISP should be able to provide you with explicit DNS addresses to enter. This not impact webmail sending, btw.
Keep us posted.
Ernie

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Is anyone else experiencing this?
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When I send from a different server it sends right away. What would be the problem.

I guess I'll cross-post this here, too:
Same deal here. Sending any mail from my Mac for the last week or so—the activity window will show it is connecting to p03-smtp.mail.me.com. This will take up to two minutes or longer before the mail message will send, as described.
I've done the ol' iCloud account reset/signing out and in/re-adding of the account, but that didn't work. This happened in the past, too, for a day or two, and just miraculously went back to its normal behavior.
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Yea!!! I got it fixed. In System Preferences and Network enter the DNS server numbers. Get those from your ISP.

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After updating to ISO6, my email sending get extremely slow or dispeard. on the botton line of mail page always indicate "sending # of 9", however I do not know where to check or delete these unsent items. Please help! It has consumed lots of data.
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I run my own mail server, so I can see that exactly as the sound is played the message is received by the SMTP server.
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Hi Linc,
I am using iMac [OS X Yosemite V. 10.10.2] and using Mail app for my email account via Outlook 365 office [Exchange].
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I did the following steps, non of them worked:
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2. Restarted the machine.
3. Signed out from iCloud.
4. Moved out com.apple.mail.plist folder while creating the account again.
5. Moved out com.apple.mailServiceAgent.plist folder.
6. Changed the internal & external ports to 25, 465 & 587.
7. Rebuilding.
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10. Checked & unchecked "Use SSL".
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safari, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
10.6.2 / 4.0.3...
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Click your Apple menu icon top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click Software Update.
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All of a sudden, it seems like it takes forever to send a small simple (Text only email)* (Apple Mail: Version 3.0 (912.1/912).
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jabidof wrote:
Maybe this can be helpful to others.
I solved this weird problem by adding manually some DNS server IP addresses to my Airport configuration. This happened to solve the slow sending mail issue.
I'm still a bit puzzled why this can happen on a 21st century OS... Should be smarter than that to my opinion.
Anyway, Mail.app is back on tracks
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Thanks for your help

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This sounds like the same thing that's happening here at my job. Just in the past few weeks everyone has noticed that when they send an email it takes several minutes for the email to actually be sent.
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