Works for me. I have a primary and the Optus one as a backup. Can
take a while to send but does go.
Duncan
Sent from my iPhone
On 21/06/2009, at 11:06 AM, Peter Meyer <pmo...@people.net.au> wrote:
I probably asked my question the wrong way around when I first
posted it.
So can someone please confirm that the configuration of SMTP servers
on the iPhone does, in fact behave as Apple says it should viz: if a
'primary' server is unavailable the phone will try the additional
outgoing servers in turn (hopefully, until it has success)?
Can anyone confirm that my experience with sending email on the 3G
network is more general than mine, alone?
My iPhone contract is with Telstra but my current ISP is People
Telecom. Therefore I have the need to specify two outgoing mail
servers: mail.bigpond.com for the 3G network and
smtp.per.people.net.au for WiFi connections. Under Settings>mail
etc>accounts>outgoing mail server it is necessary to set a Primary
Server (smtp.people in my case) and 'Other SMTP
Servers' (mail.bigpond) and there it states that:
"If Mail is unsuccessful using the primary server, it will try the
other SMTP servers in succession."
However my experience is that with the Primary Server toggled
'ON', using a 3G connection, Mail will try to send an email and,
after some delay fail with the message: 'The server rejected one of
the recipient's addresses (sic). The message has been placed in the
Outbox' If the Primary Server is toggled 'OFF' in this
configuration the message is sent but not as quickly as with a WiFi
connection where the Primary Server is toggled 'ON' It appears as
if contact with the Primary Server is still attempted before the
Secondary SMTP server is used. (so does OFF not really mean OFF?)
I have set up an account with bigpond as the Primary and the same
situation is seen in reverse ie: under WiFi if bigpond is toggled
OFF an email is sent after a delay but not at all if bigpond is
toggled ON.
Having to manually configure the primary SMTP server's state
whenever the network connection is changed is seemingly
contradictory to what the Settings note about 'Other SMTP Servers'
implies.
I had hoped that the upgrade to iPhone 3.0 would resolve the
problem but it hasn't. Nor has restoring everything 'as a new
phone' (ie without any previous settings) made any difference.
I have spent a fair bit of time talking to Telstra and Apple and,
in fact it was only in the past few days that I worked out the
above solution and was able to send emails using 3G connections
although I'm sure there wasn't this difficulty when I first set up
the phone's email. I want (need?) to send very few emails using a
3G connection but this is, nevertheless, pretty frustrating :(
At no stage has there been any difficulty receiving email or
connecting to the net on either 3G or WiFi connections
peter meyer
0408 902349
pmo...@people.net.au
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