Mail won't send, but only from my apartment/airport

It seems as if it has been for the last two weeks or so that anytime I attempt to send emails through Mail, that they won't send. But if I go to the coffee shop, or a friends apartment it sends with no issue.
Is it a possibility I accidentally messed up some security/privacy setting in either Mail or with my Airport?
macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

not sure if this is the answer but I had a similar problem recently - my ISP changed required settings so my outbound mail had to be something like "SMTP.isp.com" instead of "smtp.gmail.com"
It was a change they made over a weekend so I didn't know about it -- so my first suggestion would be to check with your ISP.
Hope this helps.

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Padmeister wrote:
Hi folks
Hope you can help me with this one.
For the last month I've been unable to send emails from Outlook unless I log in to BTYahoo. I can receive emails fine but that's presumably because I use a separate plusmail account as my incoming server. Every time I try to send an email I get an error message saying that my username or password haven't been recognised by the server.
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