Cannot send btinternet email

Apologies if this a repeat.
Cannot send email from btinternet using Mail in OS X 10.10.1 on iMac (mid2007). Keep getting message "Mail cannot send your password securely to the server." No problem with receiving email. Seems to have started since upgrading to Yosemite.

Dear Joe
Thank you for your reply. I have now solved the problem (I think). The answer is instructive. I had a long on-line Chat with the btinternet help desk. They told me to use PORT 465 on the Outgoing Mail Server and to select SSL and to use my btinternet password (which also accesses my account with BT).
Under Mail, Preferences you get a list of Accounts and when I select Btinternet, Account Information you can put in a password for the Incoming Mail Server BUT there is no obvious way of doing so for the Outgoing Mail Server. Under Advanced you can input the Port (shown as 993) but it does not say whether this is for incoming or outgoing server. By accident I found that if you go to the drop down menu for Outgoing Server under Account Information and then select Edit SMTP Server List for Btinternet, then Advanced, you get the Port and SSL selection and Password for the Outgoing Server. I put these right and it has worked. I don't know why the settings for the outgoing server are hidden away so well. It does not help.
One final oddity with the Mail application. If you select Mail, Accounts rather than Preferences you get a list of accounts. When I select btinternet and input the btinternet password that works with the Mail Preferences route, it does not recognise it or my username. If you ignore the problem and just Cancel, it all seems to work. So these two routes into the account list appear to be different.
I don't know whether this is due to a glitch in the Apple software or a problem with Btinternet. In March this year BT switched from working with Yahoo!, called BtYahoo!, to become BtMail and that seems to have caused problems. Mail on my Mac still has references to Yahoo in the accounts although my account has definitely been transferred to BtMail.
Sorry about the essay.
Yours confused but relieved.
Colin

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