New mac - can`t send mail

i have just gotton a new mac book pro, and have imported everything from my old mac. everything seems to be ok, except i can not send mail, only receive and read..... i have also tried deleting my accounts and reinstalling them, but it did not help. anybody who can help me with this??

With the caveat that I'm not sure why this exactly works, I had a similar problem which I just recently solved.
My laptop would send and receive mail fine when connected to a modem. But at another location I had access to a broadband connection. For the longest time I could only receive mail but not send from that location. Then I had to borrow a friend's laptop for a while after mine crashed. I set up the borrowed computer for mail and to my surprise I found I could both send and receive from my wireless broadband location. After I got my own laptop back up and running, I found the old behavior of not being able to send mail was back. Determined to find out why, I compared the preferences>accounts settings of my laptop with my friend's. I found one difference, changed it on my laptop and voila … it now works.
The key was in the server settings, found at the bottom of Mail's Preferences>Accounts. Clicking that button brings up another window called SMTP Server Settings. It seems a default for server port is 25. This, for some reason does not work, but 587 does.
I honestly do not know how 587 was entered into my friend's laptop, but when I changed mine from 25 to 587 it worked. You should note the warning not to change these settings without consulting the System Administrator, but I'm a single user, so I just went ahead and experimented.
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