Mail cannot connect to account, please enter password, problem

Since I have upgraded, I keep getting this pop up box in Mail on my Mac, Mail is workinhg fine on my iPad, but when I try and take the accounts online it just says it cannot connect, please enter password.
Any ideas as I am fairly new to Apple devices.

Thanks done that and it wasn't resolving the issue.
But,
I have sussed it out, Mail was using the wrong server address and I never noticed, I had to manually add the accounts instead of mail automatically finding the info and adding them.
Thanks

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