Can't Send mail in Mountain Lion Mail

I am able to receive incoming email in Mail 6.0 but am unable to send messages.  First I got a message that the STMP server did not recognize my email address (nothing had changed other then upgrading to Mountain Lion), I spent some time with my ISP tech support, was able to send a couple of message by changing the settings, but now I am getting an error message that th STMP connection has failed.  I have a gmail account which works fine on the Chrome browser, iPad, and iPhone, but cannot consistently send from Mail 6.0.  What gives?

I am also having the same trouble with lion and mountain lion. the only thing i can think of is that there are too many people on the apple server and the mail application is completely distraught. The only other problem i can come up with is that the switch from me.com to iCloud caused the servers to fail. I hope that apple figures this out soon or else they will have a whole lot of phone calls coming with the new release of the ipad and ios 6. if there is anyone else out there (hopefully apple savvy people) that knows how to fix this problem, PLEEEEASE PLEEEEEASEEE PLEASEEEEEEEEE help us out. Thanks

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