Sometimes Mail is slow emptying trash folder or sending emails with attachments

This happens occasionally- but enough to be an annoyance!
I am about to send an email using Mail to an address, and I wait very patiently while the Mail program makes a copy, communicates with server, then finally sends the email. Sometimes, to send an email with a simple attachment, this can take as long as three to four minutes!
Another related problem is Emptying the Trash folder.
Sometimes it takes an inordinate amount of time to do this, and other times such "deletion" takes mere few seconds.
I wonder what it is I'm doing wrong.

''jbugler [[#question-1058767|said]]''
<blockquote>
Hi
The context of this question is:
* I've had an Apple iMac for just over 3 years;
* and I've been using their 'Mail' application to send/receive emails;
* but not infrequently, when I send an email with one or more attachments all of the email doesn't get to the recipient;
* and after working with Apple and getting nowhere;
* I'm now using Thunderbird instead of Mail.
I like Thunderbird, but I've noticed that if I send an email with an attachment (an example is an email I've just sent with a 2.6MB attachment), it takes a while to both (a) first send and then (b) copy the email to my 'send' folder.
Are there any 'settings' changes I can make to speed things up, or do I just need a bigger machine? (I've noticed that over the 3+ years I've had the iMac, it's got progressively slower and slower.)
Regards
John Bugler
</blockquote>
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