Can't send mail but can receive mail

Hello fellow Mac users! I can usually figure most things out but this has me stumped. I have a Go Daddy account for my business. My Mac Mail has been working ok until recently. Now I can receive mail from the account but cannot SEND mail using the Go Daddy account! I have checked everything. It WILL work with my Entourage mail so I know it's not Go Daddy. And mailing direct from Go Daddy works fine. The fact that it works from Entourage makes me feel it's somehow Mac MAil. My gmail account is ok. My .mac account is ok. My hotmail account is ok. Again... I have checked all the usual problemss. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

I just had this exact thing happen this morning. Go into preferences in your email and check your outbound smtp server settings. Mine inexplicably changed to "none" _all by itself_ and I couldn't send any email. Changed it back to the correct outgoing smtp server and all is well. For the life of me I can't figure out how this setting changed by itself.
Apple, "it just works".... yeah, right.
P.S. If that's not your issue then a safe bet it's a GoDaddy thing. I was paying for an email account from them for a couple of years and had nothing but problems connecting to their outbound servers that they denied was their issue and yet I found tons of people on the web having the same problem with them. I moved my domain email over to Microsoft (for free I might add) and haven't had a single issue since. I cancelled my email account with GoDaddy even though I took a small monetary loss and couldn't be happier.
Cheers!
James

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