Duplicate Outgoing SMTP Mail Servers

I've had some difficulty figuring out how to best use email on my iPhone. I've settled on using my Gmail account, but am not quite sure how I want it to work in conjunction with the Mail app on my MacBook.
In the process of trying different options, I have installed and uninstalled Gmail a few times, and as a consequence, I now have several copies of identical "smtp.gmail.com" outgoing servers. I must be missing something simple, but I cannot find a way to delete them.
Can anyone enlighten me?
Thanks,
-RB

Thanks Mulder
There is another tiny twist which I haven't mentioned. BT broadband accounts can only take 10 email addreses (per account). So for example account 1 is called [email protected] and hosts email addresses 1-10. If you want 11-20 addresses you have to open a sub-account, which has a new name... say [email protected] All 20 accounts are set up as accounts in my Mac Mail, but half of them I want to send via [email protected], and the other half via [email protected]
The problem is that there doesn't seem to be any way of doing this as both one and two are actually hosted on the same server (with just one name) and changing one of the outgoing mail server User Names (e.g. [email protected]) and associated Password seems to change all 20?
Waddyboy

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Thanks Mulder
There is another tiny twist which I haven't mentioned. BT broadband accounts can only take 10 email addreses (per account). So for example account 1 is called [email protected] and hosts email addresses 1-10. If you want 11-20 addresses you have to open a sub-account, which has a new name... say [email protected] All 20 accounts are set up as accounts in my Mac Mail, but half of them I want to send via [email protected], and the other half via [email protected]
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I checked out with my ISP!
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Allan thank you very much about your help, but now they finally found out that there's something wrong with their smtp server.
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1, They have the worst client support hotline ever seen!
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4. They need up to 48 hours to tell you they have a problem.
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Setting up a mail client and the outgoing SMTP set...

If you switch to BT and you already have email accounts set up in a mail client such as Mac Mail, you will not find any help from BT to set up correct outgoing SMTP mail server settings. Most other ISP's are usually very helpful with this but BT have a policy that is designed to make things very difficult to use anything but a BT email account. They claim that it is "To protect our email server from abuse by spammers". However, the solution to this has potentially quite the opposite effect as you will not be able to enable SSL for it to work!!
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Go back to the main BT home page and click on mail. You should land on a page that has the new 'BT Mail Account' in the left column and above a purple tool bar with 'Settings at the end. Click on 'Settings'.
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Enter the email user name and password of your 3rd party account
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OK if it is working then go to your email client (Mac Mail in my case) and in preference set up your 3rd party account as follows.
Incoming mail server is as the info from your host ( like as in 'mx.000webhost.com' above). Enter user name and password for the 3rd party account.
Now set up an Outgoing mail server (SMPT). I just called it BT with the server name 'mail.btinternet.com'. In the advance section click use default ports. It actually uses 465 if you do not have a default option.
Do NOT enable SSL
Set Authentication to 'Password'
Then in user name enter the details of the NEW BT account you opened for user name and password.
And that's it. Well it works for me! I got no assistance whatsoever from BT in trying to solve this. I asked to cancel my new BT infinity service after only 5 days when it proved so difficult to get an email client like mac mail to work. I had 4 calls from them and even the 'Tech Experts' had no idea what I was talking to them about!

Melski wrote:
Ah yes Thank you Oliver that is a better solution. However all the settings in the BT client have to remain as no SSL. If you change to use SSL there you will not be able access the 3rd party email account.
Your email client cannot handle SSL for SMTP (BT) and non-SSL for POP3 (000webhost)?
Oliver.

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Make sure correct password is entered (for some strange reason my password box was blank on this account).
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1. Open mail.app
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EDIT SMTP SETTINGS
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Name. [email protected]
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