Send button dimmed on Mail

I bought a new iMac Wednesday that came with OS X 10.4 installed and I was able to send e-mails. Yesterday I installed OS X 10.5 and then the 5.1 upgrade and now the "send mail" button is dimmed so I cannot send e-mails. I noticed that the "Chat" button is also dimmed but the "Attach," "Address," "Fonts" "Colors" and "Save as Draft" buttons all work.
I receive mail but cannot send any. Help!

First question, why did you bring it home with 10.4 on it when they should have given you 10.5? Carol you shouldn't have to be dealing with any issues on your brand NEW Mac. It should have come with 10.5 pre-installed and everything on it should already be working. Also, just so that you know, you shouldn't have paid for 10.5 Leopard upgrade, it should have been included as part of the Mac system. Having said all of that, if you still want to deal with these Mail problems on your own +(instead of having Apple do it under warranty)+ then you'll need to find out if you are logged in as the Admin. Do you have more than one account on the Mac? If so try logging in as a new user and see if they have the button grayed out.

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