Can't receive mail after security update 9/19/12

iMac runiing 10.6.8 and Mail version 4.6 has not received any emails since I did software update on 9/19/12. I can receive mail in my accounts on my iPhone.

You're welcome.
The thing is, AFAIK Mail wouldn't put the message in the Sent mailbox unless it has received confirmation from the outgoing server that the message has indeed been sent, so it seems to me that the problem is not that messages are not being sent, but rather that they don't arrive at the destination for some reason.
I bcc myself on every email for filing reasons and have
not recieved one of my own emails since Friday night.
Do you receive other mail normally? Have you checked for those messages on the web?
I can log into my employers web tool and send email that way,
so something is going on with my machine, whatever it is.
Well, not necessarily. Maybe there is something wrong with the outgoing server you're using in Mail. Is this your only mail account? Do you have access to any other outgoing server that you could try?

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I am not getting any error messages except for the ones over the phone that go..."did you get my email? What email?" In fact, both Mail and Thunderbird give every indication that the email was sent.
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You're welcome.
The thing is, AFAIK Mail wouldn't put the message in the Sent mailbox unless it has received confirmation from the outgoing server that the message has indeed been sent, so it seems to me that the problem is not that messages are not being sent, but rather that they don't arrive at the destination for some reason.
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This is a bit of a stranfe one, eh?
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Thanks for the help. It kind of fixed the problem. With your suggestions, I no longer receive the error message from the sender's end. However, I'm still not receiving email. Below is my postconf.
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