Can receive mail fine but cant send...

Got given an old Mac by my girlfriend for work, all I really need it for is the internet and the mail, I have set up the mail setting identical to that of my windows laptop and my iPhone however I am not able to send mail. Im currently running Mac OS X 10.5.8
I have a gmail account which I would have thought would have been reasonably easy to set up, im using imap.gmail.com to receive and smtp.gmail.com to send (or not, in my case).
thanks for any advice
Adam

Hi Adam,
For Outgoing SMTP server do you have these set?

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