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

Had the exact same problem and this worked!!! Thank you!

Thanks Tiger! Had the same problem and I tried your suggestion! Works brilliantly!

Thanks Tiger,

I agree that the problem is the extra @aol on the send, but the fix that worked on your 4S isn't working on my iPhone 3 : (

Guess I just have to wait along with everyone else...

Rebecca

yep. me too. same thing. can receive and not send. started yesterday (1/25/12).

read a few of these posts and stopped reading.

bottom line question: does anyone have some sort of anwer as to when aol plans on fixing this? i assume it's an aol outgoing server problem, as everyone in the post has stated.

thanks,

anthony

Read Tiger's post. It's about 4 posts above yours. His remedy worked for me and rskup. Good luck, and thanks again to Tiger!

I'm afraid AOL is not very good at communicating about problems or their resolutions, which is why I gave up using AOL about 10 years ago. They have thousands of servers, and the problem is only occurring on some of them, which is probably why not everyone has a problem, and why fixes work for some and not for others. But it's worth trying to reset the SMTP server settings, as others have suggested. It MAY work.

Tiger thank you so much!! This worked for me too. I've been working on this since 6 pm yesterday. Aol is working on it. Could be from the solar flares. Anyway you are a hero!!

Thank you so much!! I had tried every other suggestion and nothing worked until yours. I've called AOL twice and they basically said they are aware of the problem and no idea how long to fix it......great. But they never seem to have any problems charging me the monthly fee!!!

Thank you thank you thank you ! You are brilliant Tiger

tiger's solution didn't work for me. not sure why. :-(

anyone else try tiger's solution and NOT have it work for them?

any other suggestions, tiger?

tiger-

i noticed this worked for some. didn't work for me, unless i did something wrong. any other suggestions? any idea why it wouldn't work for me? should i turn my "primary server" back "on" since your solution didn't work for me? yours seems to be the same type of setting as the primary, but i'm no IT person.

thanks for the recommendation, though.

I also am having this issue. I have tried all suggested fixes, so now I suppose we just wait! Thanks for all of the ideas everyone, this is my first time coming here to get information and it is really helpful.

This worked!! Thank you!!! I did turn off SSL too - do you think that matters? Appreciate the detailed instructions!!!

tiger's suggestion did not work on my sprint iphone 4S...HOWEVER, a couple of minutes after I turned off the servers my emails went out...at first i thought it's because I'm at work on Wi-fi but i just shut off the wifi and emails went out fine...either AOL fixed the problem or shutting off the server's works...hope this helps...

The reason this worked is that AT&T has its own SMTP server that is used when you are on the cellular data network and other servers don't respond. It's there because some ISPs don't allow their servers to be accessed over a cellular network. The server name is cwmx.com, and it does not require (or allow) a user ID or password. So what you found is a workaround for the problem, not a solution to the problem.