In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Are you sure Orange doesn't offer authenticated SMTP on port 587?

I'm not sure. The mobile email client seems to set itself up in a peculiar way.

When I first set up my O2 mobile for my ISP mailbox it seemed, as far as I remember, to accept its normal port 25 SMTP settings w/out question. However now when I try to change them it says it is going to check with the outgoing server. Never seen that before with a PC client checking during setup. Many times it fails the check in some way and refuses to do the change. Also seems to behave differently whether connected by WiFi or 3G.

Anyway, now have the Outgoing setup as my ISP's SMTP on port 587 (doesn't recognise port 465) authenticated but not SSL, altho' all of EE Help says 'Don't use authenticated' and never mentions 587. Could only successfully set this up when connected WiFi, i.e. to my ISP's network, and it will now send emails when connected to mobile network.

So, thanks for the hint about port 587 .

No, I wasn't talking Webmail, in the OP.

However, the mobile's email client does allow me to set my ISP email addy as the From: addy, but it is the GMail SMTP (not Webmail), when used, that transposes it into my GMail addy in the received msgs.

But nevermind, I have found a solution that doesn't involve any SMTP other than my ISP's.

Fair enough although not sure why that is happening with googles servers. I use gmail servers and the "send as" is generally fine (it works great from proper PC mail clients but does seem to have a problem when sending from iPhone).

Glad you've got it sorted.

I'll take that back. I sent using the wrong From: addy for this test.

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Edited by XRaySpeX (Tue 18-Mar-14 01:10:57)

No, I don't find that. Sending from PC on same GMail SMTP as phone DOES also change non-GMail From: addy to my GMail addy, just as phone did.

Have you not registered your non-GMail addy in the GMail Webmail settings, as you suggested earlier in this thread, just so you can do this? I haven't cuz I was looking for a method that didn't involve GMail.