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I have Mail 3.6 on my 2008 iMac. Sending email takes a long time. Logged in to my ISP email account; sent myself an email-it sent and was received immediately. What now?

I have OS X Version 10.5.8 on my 2008 imac. Using Mail version 3.6 (936).

Sending email takes a long time. Does not seem to be a problem receiving
email. Started a few weeks ago (that I noticed). At the suggestion of my

local Apple pal, I logged in to my email account via my ISP's website.

I sent an email to myself and it was sent and received immediately, so

it's not the ISP. Apple pal says I may have a problem upgrading to a newer

email program, as I apparently have never upgraded it since I bought it.

Any ideas?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), OS X 10.5.8

Posted on Jan 15, 2014 3:12 PM

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User profile for user: Mike Branigan
Mike Branigan Author
User level: Level 1
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Jan 17, 2014 11:20 AM in response to Eric Root

I have run the system software update check, it shows that there are no updates at this time. I don't know if the email program would be under a different software update? But Apple pal said beware of just going to Apple

website and upgrading to a newer email system, because if there were updates in between what I have and what I upgrade to, I might cause a problem. Your thoughts on that?


- Bob, I haven't done your suggestion yet, I'll have to call provider to walk me through it because I don't know how to do that myself. But thank you for suggestion and I will update after I do it.

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I have Mail 3.6 on my 2008 iMac. Sending email takes a long time. Logged in to my ISP email account; sent myself an email-it sent and was received immediately. What now?

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