My Mac Mail is showing my outgoing emails as offline

I have been using BT Wifi with FON a nationwide hot spot while my home broadband has been set up. Since I have been using my home broadband (yesterday) my outgoing mail box shows as offline. If i log in to the Hotspot it works fine again. Outgoing email works perfectly on my phone and ipad on the home wifi

Change the name of the computer in the Sharing pane of System Preferences to one that has no spaces, apostrophes, parentheses, or special characters.
If you have a BT Home Hub wireless router or something similar, you may also need to change the computer name in the router's settings as described by vincentfromcork on page 2 of this thread.

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