Out going server, Mail sends about 50% of the time, saying can't use select

Looks like everyone has Mial issues, what a pain, Im gunna get a windows machine just mor Email, or maybe another mail program.
Does anyone have any hints, it used to happen once in a while, but now that I have added a 3rd account all with godaddy, it rejects the Outgoing server about half the time. I have 3 emails acounts set up under the same domain and they all use the same outgoing server.
Any idea why this is happening?

I have found that the example given in this thread
"... you would need three smtp servers in your smtp server list, smtp.goddaddy.com:username1, smtp.goddaddy.com:username2, and smtp.goddaddy.com:username3"
also has issues. It appears that the Mail program gets confused if there are identical SMTP server names (and user names that are identical in the first 8 characters) in the list. I had a situation where I had smtp.goddaddy.com:username1, smtp.mac.com:username2, and smtp.goddaddy.com:username3. When trying to send mail from username3's account I kept getting the "can't send mail from SMTP server smtp.goddaddy.com:username1" error message. The message indicated to me that the program had confused the SMTP servers for username1 and username3. Also, the SMTP server for username3 was not in the drop down list available from the error message window from which you get the opportunity to change SMTP server designations. Account preferences looked good and the server list from there also contained the correct information. I changed the the server designation for username3 to smtp.gopapa.com:username3 (my ISP has alternate server designations) and everything works fine.

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