Mail Stuck in Outbox: Macbook OS 10.6.8 w/ Mail 4.6

I've got a MacBook with OS 10.6.8 running Mail 4.6 to three different e-mail accounts and everything was working just fine.
Starting yesterday, mail will come in, but mail won't go out to any of the three accounts. All my outgoing e-mail gets stuck in my Outbox.
Can't find similar problems in forums.
Any thoughts?
Thanks-

You can still upgrade to OS X 10.7 Lion.
system requirements for OS X Lion and Mac OS X v10.6.
OS X Lion system requirements
To use Lion, make sure your computer has the following:
An Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
Mac OS X v10.6.6 or later to install via the Mac App Store (v10.6.8 recommended); you can install without Mac OS X v10.6 by using an OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive, available on the Apple Online Store
7 GB of available disk space
2 GB of RAM
If your Mac does not meet these requirements, you will need to upgrade your Mac before installing Lion.
You can purchase an email code to download and install Lion from the Mac App Store.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion
I would advise installing more RAM into your MacBook as versions of OS X after Snow Leoaprd really require, at least 4 GBs of RAM.
Your MacBook year and model can take a total of 6 GBs of RAM.
I'd advise purchasing and installing the full 6 GBs of RAM.
Correct and reliable Mac RAM can be purchased from online Mac RAM sourceOWC (macsales.com).
They are the only RAM seller that have the 6 GB RAM kit for your MacBook.
Good Luck!

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