Help, mail does receive but not send

can anybody help me, my mail does receive but does not sent any acount exept iCloud acounts.
it does not connect to servidor SMTP

This is a reasonalby common occurance, Apple addresses it in:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1307
If that does not help then it is possible a setting has been corrupted. In that case go to Mail-Settings-Accounts and re-input all the settings even though they may look OK.

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Hi, krissycoleh.
Here is the best resource to go through when troubleshooting issues with email.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3276
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Hopefully someone can help me. I just recently purchased a new iMac (upgraded from the mini). I set up my mail and it's been working fine for the past few weeks. Now, all of a sudden, I cannot send email. I am receiving just fine. I'd like to point out the mini still has the same mail account set up (imap) and it is working just fine. Both computers are on the same wireless and have the same firewall and overall configurations. I've checked my outgoing SMTP settings 1000 times and they are correct and i've reset everything I can think of (modem, router, mail, mac, ect) and it still will not send. Any ideas?!?!
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Message was edited by: embdaw

Ok I fixed the problem and hopefully this will help anyone else experiencing the same thing. I called apple support and they had me drag the caches folder from both my user and admin account into the cache and delete them. Then I moved library->preferences->com.apple.mail.plist to my desktop (and later deleted after confirming new set-up worked).
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People have had problems with mail sending using Mobile Me. The whole launch of that service has been plagued by problems it seems (http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/25/who-is-to-blame-for-mobileme).
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Hi, and thanks for taking time to read this as I’m in need of your help.
I have a Toshiba P200, Vista Home Premium, Tiscali as my ISP, Norton Internet Security for AV and firewall, and am accessing my broadband via Ethernet to a Belkin ADSL router (and occasionally a Siemens router) and I’m experiencing some strange happenings with Windows Mail.
In short I can receive mail with no problems, but when I send the mail it stays in the outbox despite the Send Immediate option being checked or pressing the Send/Receive button. When I exit Windows Mail the mail is sent straight away, and is in the Sent Mail folder when I restart Windows Mail.
So why do I think there’s a problem with the laptop. Well, I’m fortunate enough to have a friend who has an non-Toshiba laptop, where all of the above can be replicated. Guess what, Windows Mail sends the mail exactly as it should (on my Tiscali account and on my network, through my router and ISP etc.), so I conclude that the only difference is that my laptop is a P200.
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Hi
It is typical for support people. Every of them try to send the customers away and the reason should be by them. In my opinion Microsofts reaction is strange for me. They have designed operating system and they should be responsible for the functionality.
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It is not easy to say where the problem can be but I believe there is some problem with some settings on your notebook. Some of them block it somehow. To compare your, with friends notebook is also not the best because he can have completely different OS settings (antivir application, firewall settings).
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You get the same error message with the POP account as well? I assume the outgoing server that Mail complains about now isn’t smtp.mac.com, is it?
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When I hit send, it simply puts the file in the drafts folder.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Lion.
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