Outgoing mail server is smtp.me.com:... (offline). How can I start sending email again?

I think I clicked "This solved my question" too quickly! Apparently this did not solve my problem...

It worked yesterday after I created the new account and I was thrilled. But this morning, it's back to having the same problem ` smtp.me.com:... (offline) Any suggestions??

Everything worked yesterday and I was able to go "online" with the new account. Don't know what happened. I'll try it again. Yes, I do know how to manually enter the account. Thanks for all your help. I'll let you know what happens. Hope you bear with me through this. 😉

OK, now I'm really miffed... 😕

I deleted the newly created account from yesterday and created another new one with all the correct settings. I was able to send 3 of the email in my Outbox, but when I went to send a 4th email a few minutes later, I ran into the same problem saying that my server was "offline."

This is so frustrating. I've been an Apple fan for many years, but I'm not too happy with the forced move to iCloud...

Any more suggestions? Thanks for all your help CSound1.

Sorry it took so long to get back with you but someone was pirating our satellite and we had to shut it down and get a new password-protected router...

After 9 manual tries with 9 different configurations, my email is finally working! 😀

I couldn't have done it without you!

But I did want you to know that I had to tweak the procedures and not follow them exactly. For example, no matter which new password I chose using the password requirements, nothing worked. What did finally work was using my old password. I also ended up having to press the Option key for each and every procedure. And for the username, I had to use only my .mac account name. Using the .me account user address never worked. I also had to manually change the incoming port and never found anywhere to change the outgoing port.

All in all, you steared me in the right direction and everything is working. Good times! 🙂