My dad's AOL account was broken into and he had to change his password. The problem is that he can't send mail from his iPhone anymore, and my guess is that the password in his outbound settings is incorrect. But all the SMTP settings for this account are greyed out.
Anyone know what the story is here?
Thanks.
Go to settings/general/restrictions and turn off the lock on email settings.
Thanks, Lawrence. But that doesn't appear to exist in iOS 3.x (my dad's on a first-gen iPhone).
There's no setting for 'allow changes'?
There are no restrictions on "accounts" whatsoever. That entry doesn't exist in the list of possible restrictions. The entire list is:
Safari
YouTube
iTunes
Installing apps
Camera
Location
What do you have below "Location" if you scroll down? Maybe the iPhone classic doesn't have the setting, but my memory is that it does. If it doesn't your firmware is corrupted, and you will have to restore the phone, probably without restoring the backup.
Then it gets into the "Allowed Content" section, and that's it.
iOS 3.x doesn't have restrictions on account settings. My dad verified it on his phone too.
It is nothing to do with allowed content. Grey bug was triggered because you selected a "helpful" profile in Add Account. If you are lucky SMTP credentials may be copied from your IMAP ones. I was able to change Gmail password with just IMAP.
BTW the password does not echo. This silly given that it is unlikely such a device would ever be used with a TTY or printing terminal. Password display would allow stronger passwords. I have not used or even seen a TTY in decades.
However, I am old enough to remember TTYs and sessions in the trash. If password did echo then you would only need the first part of a session.
Why are SMTP server settings greyed out?
