Mac Mail application not sending

I recently upgraded to Lion and can now not send emails through my mac mail application. I've tried every single option that people have written about on here and nothing works. It might work for a day but then the following day, it stops working. Wow Lion is great....NOT. PLEASE if anyone can help me I would really appreciate it.
Thanks for your help.

What happens when you try? Do you get an error? What kind of email account and who is your provider?
Most importantly, what does the Connection Doctor (found in the Window menu) say?

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Mac Mail do not send letters

Hi !
Suddenly Mac Mail stops to send letters.
"Sent" letters appear at Sent folder of Mail aplication and on web interface (if log in to icloud.com)
If send letters from icloud directly - all is fine.
The problem appear suddenly, nothing change at applications.
Everything updated to latest revisions.
Any suggestions welcome !

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I have the same problem with my mail after update - Any suggestions anyone?

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Hi, folks,
Upgraded to 10.10.1 on a Mac Pro Tower a month or so ago. When I use one of the few Mac Mail templates to send emails to a group, the artwork embedded in the template, and the text are separating, so the art ends up on the bottom of the email, under the text.
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Me too, very frustrsting. In addition, a few days before this happened, these same clients received emails from me from a gmail server based email address than I don't ever use for business. I think this started the day after I got the icloud email. Coincidence or not?
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1. I sent an email from email address 1 (definitely address 1) but the client received it from email address 2!
2. When I spotted the replies from the clients, I checked and no matter what I did, the system overrode the sending email to be email 2.
3. A few days later, all the clients I'd been having issues with, are having the same server message when sending as Sam. Very frustrating and wasting huge amounts of my time. What's gong on and what do I need to do about it? I've already deleted the gmail address and re-set it up which sorted the problem yesterday but it's back again today.
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I can only confirm that other users have recently reported having similar (and other) issues with .Mac mail. I don't know what can you do about it other than reporting the problem to .Mac email "support".

My mac mail is not sending certain groups when I drag the list over from address book. It is also sending to addresses in older groups I have deleted frm the group!

Thoughts?

One thing to try would be to clean up the previous recipients list in Mail > Window > Previous Recipients

Mail will not send out mail... but I can recieve?

Hey guys, well yesterday my mac mail would not send out any mail, and still won't this morning. I am using AOL mail through the Mac mail program. I have been using it forever and never had a problem.
It is telling me "cannot send message using the server smtp.aol.com:(myusername). Sending the message content to the server failed. Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below or click try later."
I have 3 email accounts I use through mac mail and all 3 are not working. To send mail I have to sign into aol and it stinks. Can anyone help me to figure out why this just quit working?
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ISPs often change things on a whim; they aren't known for being the most communicative bunch of people. But if you're sure you have your Mail settings entered correctly for your AOL account:
Incoming Mail Server: imap.aol.com or imap.aim.com (if using IMAP)
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.aol.com
In the Account name: box, type your AOL® or AIM® screen name.
In the Password: box, type your AOL® or AIM® password.
and it still doesn't work, I'd call your ISP and see what's going on; they can determine whether or not you're able to get outside their network.
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TS3276 My o2 email account does not work when sending from my MAC it will accept incoming mail but not send it gives me a message that o2 account (offline) my mac I have no problem with my iPhone or mac laptop. any suggestions please.

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Sorry for the delay...
I did what you've told me, new account and manually copied my files from Time Machine. I had lots of permissions problems, but at the end, almost everything is in order... It seems it had to be with some of the Apple Preferences, but I can't be sure, as most of them were dumped to the trash can.
I still don't have my Mail Rules back, unfortunately, although I did goggled some. It is a pity, as I had around 30 or 40 of them, getting my mail in order to each of its mailboxes, but it is a small price as the rest doesn't show the before syntoms.
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only found this problem with mac mail , when new hard drive waqs installed!!
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Mail does not send email

My problem is simply that Mail does not send email.
I have just migrated from iMac G5 to iMac Intel by using Migration Assistant. Everything else works just fine and I can receive email. However, if I try to reply, forward or send a new email message, Mail just does not do anything - no error message, nothing.
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So basically, I started using mac mail about 4 months ago. About 2 months ago I deciced to add a second email to the list, my "junk" email address. Both are hotmail accounts.
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System Preferences / Accounts tab
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Help, I set up AOL on my Mac Mail Application, now the mail is gone on AOL.

Howdy there fellow Mac supporters I was lucky enough to get some help setting up an IMAP account on my i-macs Mail Application today from this forum's wisdom and it worked fine.
Now, come to find out, all the mail is now on my i-mac but is no longer on AOL. Can I return it to it's AOL home? Can't the INBOUND mail reside in both places? They do with my .mac account.
Please help, this is more for my wife that uses another mac in the house and doesn't have the mail application set up on that computer, she uses AOL, go figure....

Hey Ernie,
I am sorry about the delay. Not only did I have to rush to Eagle Rock and pick up one of LA's premier pizza's for my family but I wanted to give your suggestion some thought time.
I changed the set up in Preferences->imap.cs.com and it didn't make any noticable difference so I left it changed.
What I did do, is go to AOL and check the 'Old' email and selected it as KEEP AS NEW...what happened is all the old/saved mail was returned to the AOL 'inbox' and turned from read mail on the imail application to new mail, hence returned from the dead.
Thanks for the time and effort in getting me a response and giving me some direction. Your a great asset to us floundering mac lovers that get lost or confused along the way.
Have a great weekend. I hope we 'meet' again because you are a great mac genius to know.
Regards.
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On a new mail message in Yosemite there is no Send button or icon. Only a grayed out word that says "send. I can receive mail but not send because nothing at top of email allows sending

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