Outgoing Mail & Password Problems-Solution

Hi All,
After upgrading to Snow Leopard I had a couple of issues.
1) Couldn't send mail
2) Passwords in Mail were not getting saved
To resolve the outgoing mail problem see this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2998
Basically edit your outgoing server and change the outgoing port to custom and put in you appropriate port number. I use Cox without SSL so I used 25
For the password problem go to your Home folder, go into Library and move the folder called "Keychain to the trash then restart. After restarting open Mail go into Preferences and add your password back to your account. It should now retain the password. This will also help with other apps like Safari that use Keychain to store passwords.
Also I was able to copy a keychain from another computer to get back all of the passwords I already had. After the upgrade my keychain was mostly empty.
Good Luck,
Mark

Had been trying that, to no avail. Found that I had to entirely delete the account and set up entirely new account with new password which worked.
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