IPhoto - emailing photos server error!

Hi everyone;
just recently, my Mom's iPhoto stopped working properly when she tries to email photos directly from iPhoto. She uses Gmail and all worked until three days ago. We deleted the account in iPhoto and added it anew but she keeps getting error about server not responding.
When I set up Mail as her email client, the photo gets exported properly and she can mail it.
She has two email accounts, one is Gmail the other is iCloud (me.com) account - the error pops up no matter what account is used.
She really likes the templates in iPhoto so she would of course prefer sending them from there. Since the error also shows up when the account is deleted in iPhoto and remains on both Gmail and iCloud accounts, I assume it is an iPhoto bug.
Any troubleshooting tips are very welcome.
Just FYI, her mid 2009 MacBook Air is on latest version of iPhoto and Mountain Lion.

Hi Gordito. I have exactly the same. I am using Mountain Lion as well as iPhoto 9.3.2. Not sure when or after the install of Mountain Lion or after the update of iPhoto, but now I can not sent pictures via iPhoto any longer. I used iPhote for this as it has those nice email templates
Do hope that Support knows the issue for this.

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