HELP!! Apple mail set up with Bellsouth.

I was wondering if anyone else has had a problem setting up there bellsouth.net email address with apple mail. Incoming messages are fine but when i try to send a message there is a message that says the server cant be used. I am positive i have followed bellsouth.net's online instructions.

Sometimes it is the simple things- you look at it a hundred times and don't see it. Thank you for the insight. I have been working around the problem for more than a couple of weeks. The fix was as simple as switching the two letters. Somehow I got the exact order right on the first one, then botched the others. I flipped back and forth between the working one and the others trying to see a difference and I never noticed the smpt instead of smtp.
As for passing on what worked, I don't know what specifics I have that will help. The smtp.att.yahoo.com works fine (now that I have typed it correctly). The user name does have to be the entire address in front of and behind the @. I remember when I was setting email accounts up that the info from ATT said email must use SSL. The only other thing I notice is port number 465- don't know if that is important or not.
Hope that will help others. Again, thanks for helping me!

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