TS4002 Mail very slow across all devices (MacBook, iPad (retina), iPhone 4s

MacBook (2007, 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, 4GB 667 MHz DDR SDRAM) 10.7.5 with Mail Version 5.3 (1283).  Retina iPad and iPhone 4s.  All software up to date.  All with plenty of space.
It takes a long time to send and a long time to down load messages on the MacBook.  Things seem file on my iPad, iPhone and checking mail through Safari via iCloud.com.
I checked the settings in my account preferences etc. and things looked as they should be as listed here http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4002 .
I've tried to stop Mail and start it and got a message that things were still being done and the "Activity" window popped up with the horizontal "blue" barber poles that just spin and never seem to finish.
I've also restared my MacBook and the problem persists.  The Activity Monitor shows no anomolous behavior with regards to CPU or System memory and the hard drive has 25 GB free.
It seems to be possible to send and receive mail, but it takes a long time.  Speed checks show my DSL speed tha same as always and pages in Safari load as always.  It only seems that Mail is problematic.
Any suggestions?

Things seem to be back to normal all the way around for me.
I did a little Googling of this sort of thing and saw some old threads in these forums and elsewhere.  It seems there are "micro-outages" with Mac Mail servers sometimes that last a few days that only affect a few lucky users.
Maybe that's what was going on.

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