Mail issues. mail is not sending all the setting are correct- is it an apple or a server problem?

As above- am using a MacBook pro 13-inch running os Lion, latest version. But mail is not sending, it will recieve. I get various messages: attempt to read data from the server failed. Connection timed out on Port. What do I do?    

Mara,
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Have you tried pinging the servers? I pinged xtra.com.nz and got incoming packets, so the server isn't down now.
PING xtra.com.nz (67.215.65.132): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 67.215.65.132: icmp_seq=0 ttl=39 time=38.397 ms
64 bytes from 67.215.65.132: icmp_seq=1 ttl=39 time=52.964 ms
64 bytes from 67.215.65.132: icmp_seq=2 ttl=39 time=43.294 ms
64 bytes from 67.215.65.132: icmp_seq=3 ttl=39 time=40.571 ms
64 bytes from 67.215.65.132: icmp_seq=4 ttl=39 time=47.965 ms
64 bytes from 67.215.65.132: icmp_seq=5 ttl=39 time=41.981 ms
64 bytes from 67.215.65.132: icmp_seq=6 ttl=39 time=40.640 ms
64 bytes from 67.215.65.132: icmp_seq=7 ttl=39 time=55.982 ms
64 bytes from 67.215.65.132: icmp_seq=8 ttl=39 time=51.190 ms
64 bytes from 67.215.65.132: icmp_seq=9 ttl=39 time=40.756 ms
^C
--- xtra.com.nz ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 38.397/45.374/55.982/5.848 ms
I'm a bit at a loss. I don't use Mail - I've been using Entourage and, more recently, Outlook from Microsoft for over ten years. Nary a problem with POP or IMAP. Some people also like Mozilla Thunderbird - it's free and it's worth a download just to see if you can set up a useable account with it.
Post a screen shot of your settings and we'll go from there.
Clinton

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