Help setting up Apple mail using AT&T settings

I'm trying to set up my AT&T e-mail on my MacBook, which is running OS X Tiger (pretty sure -- definitely not Leopard). I know it's a POP3 account, and I have the incoming mail and outgoing mail settings.
When I click on mail, it starts to walk me through setting up a new account. Everything works great until I get to the outgoing mail part. It tries to connect to the server and just hangs there. I usually end up canceling because it's taking so long. If I wait long enough, I get an error message that says it couldn't connect to the outgoing mail server.
Does anyone have any experience trying to set up Apple mail with AT&T settings? If so, I'd really love the help! Thanks in advance...
Message was edited by: Kelly Adams1

AT&T had to give you more than that: port numbers for each server (incoming and outgoing), authentication method to use, and whether or not SSL should be enabled for either. We need to know that information.
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