Cannot send mail from my hotmail account on my iphone 4s

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Cannot send mail from my hotmail account on my iphone 4s

i bought a iphone 4s and set up my hotmail account through the Mail setting - Add accout - Hotmail. I have never been able to send mail through this set up. i have deleted the account and re-setup the account several times and had no success. I am able to recieve email but this is still useless if I cannot reply. Is there anyone else with this problem? can anyone help me?

I love this phone, but this is definately a major downfall and I am really %&#@...... unhappy.

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Mar 3, 2012 9:00 PM

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Dah•veed

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Mar 3, 2012 9:11 PM in response to Mattgoldrup

What does the alert tell you when the email fails to be sent?

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randers4

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Mar 3, 2012 9:18 PM in response to Mattgoldrup

Try setting it up as an Exchange account and I suspect you'll have more success. See

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32784/sync-hotmail-with-your-iphone-or-ipod-touch -with-exchange-activesync/.

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Mattgoldrup Author

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Mar 4, 2012 2:37 PM in response to Dah•veed

It says cannot connect to server. I am about to try setting it up as an exchange account to see if that works

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OfmyI

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Mar 4, 2012 3:12 PM in response to Mattgoldrup

Your fix can be as simple as you got the password wrong. When sending from my hotmail I needed to go into my email service provider and allow my hotmail access to my email account...the server thought it was junk mail. Also make sure the S/MIME is Off? So email is the full account email plus domain; password (correct); description Hotmail; S/MIME Off. Keep in touch.

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Mattgoldrup Author

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Mar 4, 2012 3:30 PM in response to Mattgoldrup

I tried the exchange set up and got the same message when trying to send an email. Then I went back and set up through the hotmail option and now is works. :s I don't understand but I guess that doesn't matter. Now I can finally send emails. Thanks for all the help

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delaerea

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Jun 2, 2012 7:05 PM in response to Mattgoldrup

Hey! I got mine fixed! Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Click on the email account you are having trouble with > Click on SMTP > Click on Primary Server > Type in your username/password and make sure to use SSL. my port is 587.

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May 13, 2013 2:34 PM in response to Mattgoldrup

Solution that worked for me:

Remove that hotmail account from iPhone, then re-add it.

I waited for several hours incase it was something on the server, didn't help.

I re-entered my password and account name, didn't help.

Removing and re-adding the account fixed what ever glitch was happening.

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Dec 11, 2013 2:32 PM in response to Mattgoldrup

I had the similar issues all I did to remove the hotmail account and addes as outlook account with my hotmail credentials and it worked. I had another issue with my hotmail accont that even I read email on IPhone those shows unread wen I login to hotmail account through web so adding through outlook option it sync up the account. Hoping this will helpful.

Thanks

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May 28, 2014 6:03 AM in response to Mattgoldrup

I was having trouble emailing from Gmail on my iPhone 5, because the server didn't allow relaying, as some folks in this thread described . Deleting and setting the account up again didn't help. Someone in this thread said to go to Settings, Gmail, Advanced, Server Port, and change it to 25. It worked like a charm. BUT- here's the weird part: when I went back to check the server port, it had changed itself back to the previous port # and it's still working fine. Go figure.

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