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does anyone happen to know why i keep getting errors on my mac pro (ethernet connection to internet and on Lion) related to Mail asking me to select a different outgoing server? i have two servers associated with my website domains, one for me.com and one for gmail and email is constantly getting hung up in mail on the mac pro so that i have to select a new server all the time and sometimes i awake in the morning to find that mail has not gone out. this is a major pain and i have tried to troubleshoot it with mac mulitple times as well as with my domain host and it keeps coming back.
i don't seem to have this problem on the macbookpro which is always on wifi and on Mountain Lion.
this problem has been going on for at least two years and always comes back after getting fixed.
TIA for any advice or technical expertise.

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After you do that if this happens again, I would be really suspicious that drive is on the way out. I would be religious about backups and start checking around for a replacement.
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