Why does email hesitate for a minute or more and then come in normally?

When I click "get mail" it does not come right in. It will take sometimes up to 90 seconds before the first email comes in but then they will all come in at a normal speed. I have high speed cable internet and operate Windows XP with service pack 3. I have cleaned up all the RAM eating programs and done some house cleaning but the problems remains.

I always get worried when I hear of issues with clicking get mail.
When you start Thunderbird it gets mail, then it does it on a timed basis for all accounts. Then someone comes along and says if takes XX second for a get mail to initiate.
My first question is always, why are you clicking get mail? Other than the rare occasion your waiting for a password reset mail etc it servers almost no purpose. and then I tend to use web mail as it updates just a bit faster.
When you click get mail, Thunderbird must lookup the site in DNS, contact the site, offer up your credentials, log in, check the capability of the mail server, ask for your mail and wait for the server to respond at each point.
Lots of load on the server and you see delays in each response. Lots of time spent inspecting the mail as it arrives you see delays in delivery. Anti virus wants to lookup the credentials of the server in it's phishing and other databases, more delays. Got security software from your bank? it is probably fighting with other security software and slowing things down.
Boot you machine into safe mode as that disables most of the rubbish security stuff and try getting mail in that state. Then try starting Thunderbird with add-ons disabled from it's help menu (alt+H) while still in Windows safe mode and see if that is faster.
If safe mode alone is fast, look at the software you have installed. If Thunderbird add-ons disabled is faster you have an add-on that is the cause.
My observation is most DNS lookups are slow, most connection

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Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
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If your computer seems to be running slower here are some things you can do:
Start with visits to:     OS X Maintenance - MacAttorney;
                                  The X Lab: The X-FAQs;
                                  The Safe Mac » Mac Performance Guide;
                                  The Safe Mac » The myth of the dirty Mac;
                                  Mac maintenance Quick Assist.
Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
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Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
Repair the Hard Drive - Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the Utilites Menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD disk icon and click on the arrow button below.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, then click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
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For situations Disk Utility cannot handle the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible.
Note: Alsoft ships DW on a bootable DVD that will startup Macs running Snow Leopard or earlier. It cannot start Macs that came with Lion or later pre-installed, however, DW will work on those models.
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OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or later and should not be installed.
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Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
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Pre-Mavericks
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