How to resolve inability to send Apple Mail to new ISP server from work.

Switched to Insight Broadband over the weekend. Now at work, I can receive email but not send it. The error message is authentication required, yet Insight specifically does not require any authentication on its outgoing server and I set up the account in Mail to require password authentication for incoming. Have read similar topics and neither Insight nor my employer blocks port 25. Insight's lame web support gives instructions in Entourage to override the receiving port to 995, requiring SSL, which Mail seems to have picked up on automatically. However, the same Entourage instructions advise to override the default sending SMTP port to 465 and require SSL. How does one override the default sending SMTP port in Mail (from 25, I presume) to 465 and require SSL? Thanks in advance.
15" 1.67 Ghz Aluminum PowerBook G4, 2Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 128 Mb VRAM Mac OS X (10.4.8) 23" Cinema HD Display, HP/Canon Printers, Gigabit Ethernet and Wireless Network
15" 1.67 Ghz Aluminum PowerBook G4, 2Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 128 Mb VRAM   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   23" Cinema HD Display, HP/Canon Printers, Gigabit Ethernet and Wireless Network

Thanks for your kind assistance. It apparently requires more configuration work to use cable broadband than dsl broadband. I had discovered your path (sorry not to have said so), but the error message led me to both override the port AND to port to use password authentication, even though the basic account setup if connected directly to the Insight modem or peripherally to it through routers or switches or using Insight's broadband servers for your workplace specifically advises to use NO authentication on the outbound server. Finally, once the Insight tech and I stumbled on the Proxies setting "Manual" in Network and UNCHECKED "Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV), all has seemed to be settling down, although it seems that I am also having to change the address of the outgoing mail server to reflect password authentication as well. Stay tuned.

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