My mail account will not send messages

i have a macbook i use on the road and the mail application works fine i can send and receive everything is cherry on my mac pro at the studio i am only able to receive incoming messages i cannot send outgoing messages but my settings are identical to my other computer. the only difference is that the macbook has leopard and the mac pro has tiger so they are running different versions of mail. any ideas anyone?

See if this Apple article helps.
*Mac OS X 10.5: Can receive email, but not send email*
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307369>
Good luck,
Tom

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