Mail & AOL ... can't send

Evening ...
I've been set up to send and receive mail on my AOL account via MAIL for months now without any issue. As of last, however I can no longer send mail. The server still delivers mail with no trouble but when I go to send I get ... "Cannot send message using the server ..."
The really weird part is that I had sent about 90 emails prior to that. I deleted all the info in my Preferences and reconfigured the account and nothing.
Any ideas?

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
There are limits with many such providers on the number of messages you can send in some period of time, etc. It does not sound like you would have hit that, but the behavior sounds suspiciously like you have. See:
http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/email-address-limit.html
Try to contact AOL and check this.
Ernie

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