Can send but not receive in Mail

I can't send out email in Mail, despite having the right settings. (I have gone over this with support.) I have used Mail for years, and this has only been a problem since upgrading to Leopard. Saw Pascal's answer to zfalstaf on Jan 7 and tried all his suggestions but nothing helps. Erased my account and reinstalled it. No good. The same settings work in Thunderbird.
Error message: Cannot send message using (Mailbox name) Out
+OK X1 NT-POP3 Server (URL Name Here).com (IMail 9.10 750087-2)
Connection doctor sometimes connects to POP Mail server In, sometimes doesn't. Always gives red light on SMTP server.
Help!
Message was edited by: steviesaf

Thanks for the quick reply, Pascal!
I posted the error message above, if that helps. Maybe it just confuses the matter more...
I have just the one email account. I only use my Mac at home.
Your reply in the post to zfalstaf:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1329221&tstart=105
1) quit mail, launch again
2) shut down mac, the launch again
3) go to mail>preferences>accounts and in the account information pane, click on the smtp drop down menu and select the smtp info for that account, then in both account information and advanced delete the info and enter again and save
4) go to same location as 3) above, and try different ports, such as 587, 465... does switching ssl do anything?
5) go to your keychain access app and look for the password used for that account, is everything all right? maybe delete and save another one, or maybe there are more than one thereby confusing mail.app
6) repair permissions in applications>utilities>disk utility
7) delete that account, go to keychain and delete that password, then create from scratch
(Me again: I have done these, and they have not helped. Hope you have some other thoughts. Thanks!)

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