My internet mail accounts won't work on Mail

I have a number of internet mail accounts, none of which I can get to work on 8.1.  I haven't used OS X Mail in quite awhile, but wanted to try to get back to it with the Yosemite upgrade.  I've input my incoming server and outgoing server and made sure the ports matched my site's mail.
I can't find any known issues with it.  My Gmail works fine, and my internet accounts work just fine on Postbox.

Are you using SSL or not? Note that Yosemite will try and auto-set the settings, so it may be best to not set the ports manually and let Mail try and do it, if you just use your email address to set up the account.

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