Can no longer send outgoing e-mail

Up until last week, I was able to send outgoing e-mail from my me.com account. Now, I can't. I read somewhere that if you were away and connected to another server and then put the computer to sleep, that could be the problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

this is the server forum.. you might want to look at
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1198
this is the .me mail forum.

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Hi Lanny,
Thank you for this. I followed it "to the letter". In fact, I tried it twice to make sure I didn't miss any steps. Both times, everything went as described until STMP. When I got to the STMP page and hit "create", it once again told me that the STMP server name and/or password were "incorrect". My iCloud mail arrives fine, but nothing can go out because the outgoing mail does not recognize my password (or at least that seems to be what is happening.) I tried to give up and set Thunderbird up as my default mail client, but iPhoto doesn't recognize it and when I want to email a photo, it opens Apple Mail. I just do not understand why it works on my MBP and not on my iMac. Nothing was changed on either computer. It simply stopped sending outgoing mail on the iMac and continues to send out on the MBP.
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