Can't send aol mail from my iphone but can receive it. Help!

Same here acsnevada. Verizon and Apple guy tried that. It didn't work.

I have no clue what that other guy is talking about.

The Apple guy actually set it up on his demo phone as well with me and it would not work.

Still waiting patiently.....

same issue here. I can see the see the outgoing mail server info but can't access it. The send button to send an email is unaccesable too. I am trying to send message from the ipad 2. I tried deleting the account and resubmitting the info and it just locked up the ipad.

Don't waste your time - the only one who can fix this is AOL- last time it happened when they were upgrading servers- it should be fixed in 24-48 hrs based on past experience - or I'll have to break down and call and waste several hours with AOL (good luck with that) and Apple

I am having the exact same issue. I went to AT&T first and they couldn't find anything wrong with the phone. They deleted my AOL acount but it still didn't work. I can receive messages but I can't send any. They told me it was an AOL problem. Then I went to the Apple store and they tried everything too and couldn't halp me. The guy there said it was AOL. I thought it was my phone. They said to wait 24-48 hours.

Sure would be easier if AOL just emailed everyone or put out an announcement detailing the problem and anticipated repair time- that would save so many people from time on phones / service calls and getting no info

AOL?? Come on. They still don't inform customers that the AOL service is free now. Some people still pay $23+ per rmonth...

Just called AOL and they are aware of the problem and are working on it. It is strange because I can not send email from my primary user name, but I can send from a secondary user name. I have an iPhone 3GS, 4S, and an iPad, use both ATT & Verizon and have a mix of ios 5 and ios 4, and in all cases I cannot send from the primary user name account only.

You can send mail only in icloud. It works for me but because everyone knows my AOL address and not the ME address and I use the AOL account for all my business correspondence. I hope AOL fixes the issue real soon.

Fennelw1, thanks for the update and making that all hated call to AOL. Did they give you a time frame??

Cherlyhi, I hear you, same for me. I do my business from my AOL email.

Waiting patiently......I guess.

I received a reply asking if AOL had offered a time frame for the repair. Unfortunately I did not. The tech only indicated that AOL would be in touch.

I had the same problem today. Thought it was just me. Glad to know that it is an AOL issue. Gmail and Roadrunner are sending out fine. I pay for aol, but I've never gotten off the phone with them without it lasting at least 3 hours and without a solution, so I guess I'll pass on calling them and just wait until they resolve it.

I have been having same issues in the UK tried all sorts and then found that I had to change the AOL setup on the Iphone and Ipad2 to allow sending - basically under email accounts I had to add my aol username and password under outgoing and incoming servers this is the username of aol without the @aol.com added once this was done it sends now fine, as before only recieved - i think AOL have change some server settings. hope this helps.

Thanks anhstolt for the advice. Apple and Verizon tried all that for me. Didn't work so I will wait for the AOL peeps to work this out....if they ever do???

My wife encountered the same problem today. We both have an iPhone 4S. We both have AOL accounts, but my email continued to work and hers did not. After a thorough comparison of our settings, I could not find anything wrong. However, I was able to "fix" the problem by doing the following. Go to the "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" settings panel under "Settings." Click on the "AOL" account. Click on "Account". Under "Outgoing Mail Server" click on "SMTP". Under "Primary Server" it says "smtp.aol.com" and is probably set to "On". Change this setting to "Off". Then click on "Add Server..." under "Other SMTP Servers". Add "smtp.aol.com" as the Host Name, Your AOL account as the user name (without "@aol.com"), and your AOL password. Your outgoing mail should now work. I believe the problem is that on my wife's phone, "@aol.com" is somehow getting added to the sendmail request under the default settings for the Primary SMTP server. This bypasses that problem. Best of luck...