OSX Lion doesn't send mail but save it in the draft

I have upgraded OSX Leopard to Lion and I have this strange problem.
I have 4 business mail account and all receive mail correctly one of them doesn' send the email. I can edit the message, and when i press send, the message disappear, nothing happened, after ten second It appear in the draft folder. At this point all the buttons on the message are disable and I can't do anyting only delete the message.
I use the same SMTP server for all the account and the same configuration.
What can I do to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.

I was having problems sending email with Gmail through Mail a few days ago. I honestly don't know what fixed the problem but I removed my Gmail account and re-added it and that seemed to do the trick. No settings were changed, to my knowledge, but perhaps something weird happened during the update to Lion.
This was done with an IMAP account so I didn't lose any email through removing the email account. If you are using a POP3 email account then you might need to copy your email from the problem account to a local folder just in case removing the email account causes you to lose the content of your inbox.

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http://support.apple.com/en-us/ts3276
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
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