Mail won't send because of OutBox or inport inbox

Just got a MacBook Pro. Very Happy with it thus far but seem to be having trouble with Mail. I went through the set up, pointed it to my former Inbox but It didn't import my inbox. I tried to do it again and it just spun all night trying to import the inbox before crashing. I got the settings set so I can recieve mail but sending mail gives the error message "The message could not be appended to the Outbox."
what gives?

Many ISPs don't allow you to use their outgoing Mail server unless you are actually connected to them, for security reasons. You could open a Google Mail account and send using their server - this can be done from anywhere since it is password-authorised.

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