E-Mail won't send my mail from GMail account

My e-mail keeps on telling me that it can't send e-mails from my GMail account and it's the primary account I use for sending e-mails. Please, tell me what do i have to do in order to be able to send e-mails from my Maill app on my iMac?
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The error message says that you don't have an outgoing mail server selected. Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and select the gmail account in the left hand panel. Next go to "Outgoing Mail Server" :
It should read smtp.gmail.com if you are using pop. If it is blank click on it and it should display whatever outgoing servers you have configured. If the only option you have is to "Edit SMTP Server List" then you need to enter the information as shown below.
These are the standard settings for gmail pop:
You will also need to set password authentication on your outgoing (SMTP) mail as shown below:

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