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I saw these as two differnt issues, one of which was resolved (the outgoing mail issue)
The other issue is problems in .mac mail, totally separate from above. That is why I started a new topic
 
In fact, I was asked (see above) to post this in applications where it was felt it was more appropriate. So I am not clear why it then got moved back here.
 
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