Mail issues--disappearing outgoing message text and...

OK ... I am just a bit irritated. I have encountered a few problems lately with Mail where it acts as if the smtp server I use won't accept the connection and/or password (that is 100% correct). Sometimes the problem goes away on its own. But that was just what led to my primary problem today is.
I put together a rather lengthy email - took about 30 minutes to compose, that was of some importance. I click send...
After about a minute, I see the problem above telling me to pick a different outgoing mail server. Ummm.. no. The smtp server is working fine, and I tested it on another machine to be sure. So back to my iBook. I click "try again later".
Well, it tries again a bit later - and get the same notice. But I also see something about my email has changed --- it is BLANK! All of that work - gone. I did not edit it, nor did I delete the email's content myself. It somehow vanished into oblivion when it was sitting waiting to try again. I didn't even use this machine in the time in between.
I'm none too happy. Is this a new Microsoft-like "feature"? I know, I'm being sarcastic - but I am a bit frustrated. I switched to Apple Mail from MS Entourage because I was trying to walk away from MS software. It seems that the problems I have been having with Mail (and also Safari) have cropped up after the last few security updates and application updates.

Hi Michael,
I certainly think Mail is a strange bird myself, but most don't have this problem. I only use it to help out here, I use these two...
Eudora...
http://www.eudora.com/download/
Thunderbird...
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Have you done any Disk/OS maintenance lately?

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