No Mail Preferences Need to Look at My Account Settings

Ok - Someone got my email password and I had to call my email company. They had me change my password. But now I cannot send mail. I can receive it. And all my other email address are working. Something happened with my mail awhile ago where when I click on mail preferences the only thing that comes up is a box with rules. I don't know how to fix this. I have tried everything that I can think of. I have browsed through here, but I am not too familiar with this new OSX mac stuff. So if anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. Oh, maybe this will help you too, I downloaded Eudora, a mac email program (cause there are no mail programs out there for us mac lovers) and I set this up. I am still getting the same problem, I cannot send emails. Which leads me to believe there is something I am missing.

When you have opened Preferences (which isn't giving you any choices), still with Preferences pane open the next thing to do is to go back up to the top menu bar click on View
and from that will be a choice Show Toolbar (in preferences)
After doing that you should once again have General, Accounts, Junk Mail, Fonts and colours, Viewing, Composing, signature, Rules.
You are only seeing Rules, because the toolbar is not showing.

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