Mail outgoing email issues

Yosemite outgoing Mail issues have been all over Internet since last Fall. I still have not seen Apple address the issue! Some suggestions from OS X Daily, etc. involve pref changes. However, I find that the pref changes disappear after they are made. I realize they must be selected to "save" but that option does not always present itself. Outgoing mail going as "reply" or forward" hangs up and creates an "outbox" which continues to try to send but has no success. This emails appear to be corrupted once they go there and must be trashed.
The only way I can get a "reply" or "forward" message out is to add a pdf doc at the end of the text in which I simply type "Intentionally Left Blank" so the receiver will not wonder why it is there. From now on, I think I will add "Page will remain blank until Apple wakes up and fixes this essential Mail app"! Perhaps we could add a live "clock" (like the national debt clock) that could continue to show the hours, days, weeks and months in which Apple failed to respond.
Can any Mac users help?
Ed Jones
Commander, USN (Ret.)

Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have wrong permissions. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore is not, in itself, a solution.
First, empty the Trash, if possible.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 $ 2>&- | wc -l | pbcopy
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run.
Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear.
The output of the command will be a number. It's automatically copied to the Clipboard. Please paste it into a reply.
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.

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GeezingInVA2 wrote:
I noticed my email account server settings don't match what is defined on the FiOS email setup page on verizon.com.
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