iOS 4 - Gmail Push - Mails stucks in the outbox

Mine seems to be "fixed" now. I had a similar experience as macatron. I had a imap account for syncing my notes from gmail. I deleted it because i was following advice about deleting all the accounts and then added JUST the Activesync gmail back and it worked. Added the imap back and it stopped working. So its fixed in the since that i know the work-around for it. having the notes syncing isn't a big deal and i can give it up in order to have my push email send correctly; but at the same time it shouldn't work like this.

Well, I definitely agree that this is something that we shouldn't have to do in order to get our mail working properly, but I'm glad that it is at least working for others as well. Maybe when Apple gets around to releasing iOS 4.0.1 we'll see a lot of these issues fixed, but I'm not going to hold my breath. I'm just happy my mail isn't getting "stuck" anymore! 🙂

There is a somewhat related issue here:
<http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/07/01/455342.aspx>
I'm going to cross-post this discussion as well.

I also wanted to confirm that deleting my Gmail IMAP account (which was inactive) seems to have fixed the problem of emails initiated outside the Mail App getting stuck in my Outbox. Thanks to everyone for their help.

Me too. Thanks so much 😀

Well, that's all great, but what if I am actually using my Gmail IMAP account as my main mail account?

I also have the "mail stuck in outbox" problem since iOS 4. Because my business email address is not a Gmail address, I need to use my business SMTP server to send mail. But I use Gmail to receive and read my mail. In this combination, I am still stuck with the problem 😟

Mike

I have a business exchange account and a gmail account. When I removed my old gmail imap account mail started working properly. It's still a bug but with an easy workaround. The solution is to only use imap OR exchange with gmail, but not both. I guess we all made the transition in stages and have two accounts hanging around.

I ONLY use IMAP with Gmail! But I don't use Googles SMTP server for outgoing mail and that seems to be the cause of the "stuck in outbox when sent from an external app" problem!

Well, it seems like even I fixed it now. I deleted ALL mail accounts on iOS 4 except Gmail IMAP and MobileMe (for calendar and contact sync only).

did you get a solution for this?

i upgraded to v4.0 and now canna send email from gmail OR using xchange server... me thinks there is something screwy with this latest version....

I had the same problem where mails sent from apps other than the Mail App were stuck in the Outbox until I manually send them.

I was using google Sync for Mail, Contact and Calender + Google IMAP for Notes sync.

I fixed the problem by removing the IMAP Account (used only for Notes) and reset network settings.

It's now OK. But I whish Apple will fix so I can start Notes Sync again.

Is anyone else now receiving random emails from "No Sender" fated some time in the distant past that are undeletable now that the upgraded? Driving me crazy. Phone also now freezes up whenever I get a voicemail message. Had hoped these would go away too with the "fix" but it seems the fix only fixed the new phones' reception . . .

Same here. Had my old Google Apps IMAP account just syncing notes, my new Google Apps Activesync account, and a work email account also using activesync. Turned off notes syncing, but email sent from outside the mail app still stuck. Deleted the IMAP account (which was now totally inactive with notes sync turned off) and messages in Outbox were sent immediately. No more messages stuck in the outbox. Thanks!

It's a bug with a workaround. See report: http://openradar.appspot.com/8306127