Please Help - Mail 4.3 will receive fine but not send

Everything is the same; my computer has been working totally fine for over a year. All the settings are just as they were...But for the last week it keeps coming up with this message: "Cannot send message using the smtp.live.com" Sometimes it would do this then work again straight away.
I'm in the process of updating to OS X10.6.6 to see if that helps, but don't have enough internet credit so have to use it at work at lunch times.
I can go thru the hotmail webpage and get my mail that way, also my iphone is sending and receiving fine too. But I prefer my Mac!! Any suggestions? Normally I can find answers to my problems straight away with just a quick search but I'm totally stuck on this one
I've tried - deleting all info & re entering it
-someone suggested an outgoing server of smtp.hotmail.com
-setting outgoing server to "none" which for some reason used to work
I'm wondering if hotmail is causing it to stuff up, so I have to go thru their site, thus see their advertising, they get money etc?
thanks in advance!!

This message would indicate that you have this SMTP set up without Authentication, which if that is the case it is also likely getting presented on Port 25, which most connection providers block.
Change the SMTP to Password authentication, SSL, and change to Use Custom Port and enter 587 -- this prevents Mail for some temporary issue changing to use another of the default ports.
Let me know if this solves.
Ernie

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