Mail does not recognize outgoing server for Forwards or content other than text

Since installing Mountain Lion Mail has been erratic. It generally will not send mail that I Forward nor will it send mail that includes links, graphics photos, etc. It sends original mail consisting of text only without a problem. When I try to Forward mail, or send new mail that includes content over and above text, I get the following result:
None of the options will send the mail. If I “Try With Selected Server”, I go into an endless loop – click on it, get the same Cannot Send… window back. “Try Later” merely puts the message into my Outbox where it sits – and sits. It will sit there for days if I let it. If I sooner or later try to send it, I get the above Cannot Send… window again. If I “Edit the Message”it still will not send. The Connection Doctor tells me that the mail account is logged in and connected without a problem. If I “Edit SMTP Server List” I get Mail Preferences – the edit SMTP list window – and no SMTP servers listed – blank list. Yet the Mail account has the proper iCloud SMTP server in its set-up. Moreover, text only emails send without a hitch. I can readily send them before, during and after the “Cannot Send…” window pops up for an email that has other than text included in its content.
Interestingly, if I put the problem email into my Draft mailbox and then go online and log-in to my iCloud account, I can then open the email in iCloud online and send it – and it sends without a pause or quibble. Why won’t it send through Mail on my computer???
NONE of this happened in Lion.

Some of the threads related to this one that I found (none provides a solution):
On apple.com:
* IMAP Folders (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6406947#6406947)
* Exchange email folders and sub-folders: iPhone only pulling main "inbox" (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6406941#6406941)
* IMAP - How to poll sub-folders (not GMAIL/Yahoo) (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6406940#6406940)
* Mail not checking for new messages in IMAP subfolders (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6406938#6406938)
* Imap Slow or not responsive (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6406937#6406937)
* Iphone Mail Only Shows "Load X More Messages" (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6407082#6407082)
* IMAP: Only updates Inbox? (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6407083#6407083)
* Any way to get the mail app to get updated message counts for other folders (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6407118#6407118)
Elsewhere:
* Help iphone mail subfolders IMAP (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=391027)

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