SMTP on Mac Mail all Stopped Working

Hi, back already! Well everything was going great until I tried to send an email with mac mail. All my SMTP services are not resolving. One outlook one and two from my own website email.
Applied a fix that I found on the apple forum but wondered if this was an "approved" fix. I mean it works but is this the best way to deal with it? I changed my DNS server to 208.67.222.222 and they resolved. Is that the best way to deal with this?
Thanks!
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Before I changed the DNS server I tried relaunching mac mail, rebooting the computer & restarting the router to get a new IP (I wondered if I'd been allocated an IP address that had previously been used for spam) None of these worked.
Both the OpenDNS and GoogleDNS both resolved the problem. To clarify it was two email accounts hosted by heart internet (smtp.outitgoes.com) and one outlook.com (smtp.live.com) perhaps these SMTP servers need to be added to a "safelist" within BT systems, I dunno. I've switched to GoogleDNS so I'll just leave it at that, no issues there so that's fine.

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