ADD GMail DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 for Mail offline and outgoing problems?

i have had outgoing mail issues and "offline" listed for SMTP servers problems since time immemorial and i am wondering if anyone knows for a fact if adding the above settings for GMail in System Preferences > Network > DNS tab is a good solution to this.
i am going to pay my technical help guy to come over and fix this for the fifth time in three years but i would like to see if i can get some hard facts on what may be causing it so i can fix it on my own first.

That's a Google DNS server. It can't hurt to try.
Open System Preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS
Click + and type: 8.8.8.8
Click+ again and type:
8.8.8.4
Click OK.
Quit and relaunch Mail.

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