Help with mail not sending

I have had an apple mail account for 2 yrs, never had an issue. When I upgraded to a family account 3 months ago, no issues. I now have my main account and a second 'family account". In the last week my mail keeps hanging, saying it cannot find server, I have to keep going into the drop down menu and using my gmail account to send the apple mail.
I have gone into preferences and reset the outgoing server, and unticked only use this server (??) - but to no avail - anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Many thanks if you worked your way through my saga

It's possible your Mail preferences are corrupted. Try going to ~/Library/Preferences and deleting the com.apple.mail.plist file, then restart Mail and setup your accounts again. See if that fixes the issue.

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