Lost mail ????

Some how i lost my mail  history also the "sent "e-mail will not execute  ...I can't send new mail , and I am not receiving any mail ???!!!! I have mail 4.5 version I have the Icon at bottom I click on it and the mail page comes up but i can write an email but it  did ask me what my stmp user id and passsword was !!!!??????...I don't know what that was all about ....all the info in my mail boxes is gone ... I need some help !

I'm not sure what additional information would help..this situation really confuses me. I didn't formally remove the old email information (i.e., clicked a delete icon or anything). But after replacing the incoming and outgoing mail-server information with the new information, nothing remained of the old folder contents. Because I had specified long ago that mail is deleted from the ISP's site once I retrieve it through Mail, nothing remained there.
As I mentioned, I tried to replicate the old account by setting it up as a new account.
I hope I have supplied some answers. If not, please tell me what else I can supply--I'd love to pull back some of those saved messages.
Thanks.
Tom Brinkmoeller
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.8)  

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