Gmail very slow to send email after iOS 6 upgrade?

Matthew110607 wrote:

- In the stock mail app, sending an email via GMail takes 5-10 minutes AT LEAST.

I'm using the stock GMail configuration in the iOS Mail app and am not seeing a delay in sending messages, they go out immediately (as verified by sending a message to an account that supports push notification)

The stock GMail iOS configuration only supports fetch, which means you'll receive message notifications at the specified fetch interval, or if you manually check. But outgoing messages seem to go immediately.

So perhaps the delay you're seeing is on the receiving end, not from the sending side. But regardless, if you're using the stock iOS GMail configuation then you'll be using fetch for receiving messages. You either live with that, or use another mail app that supports push for GMail. (JB is not to be discussed on this forum, so is not considered an option)

Meg St_Clair, what do you mean by setting up Gmail as a "standard email account"? Is this setting it up as an "other" account in the iPhone mail setup app? I've tried that and I can receive messages fine but can't send at all. I get an error message that "The sender address clarkewc@ was rejected by the server." That's my correct email address and it is entered correctly in setup.

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As this is a global forum, I highly suggest you edit your post to remove your address ... unless you're short on friends ;-)

Are you setting up your GMail account as an Exchange account? As noted above, that no longer works (unless you had already done that prior to January 30th on this device).

By "standard" I meant using the built in Gmail settings.

Thanks for getting back. I re-set the Gmail account as an "other" account using all the right settings this time, and it works now BUT has the same 2 to 5 minute sending delay as the built-in Gmail account. In other words, as far as I can tell, there is no way to properly send email in Gmail on iPhone 4s with ios6 except by using the Gmail App.

Brinybill wrote:

In other words, as far as I can tell, there is no way to properly send email in Gmail on iPhone 4s with ios6 except by using the Gmail App.

I don't get why you'd be seeing any delay ... I'm using the standard GMail profile provided by iOS and outgoing mail is sent immediately. Incoming mail is delayed by whatever the fetch settings are, but outgoing is immediate.

In your GMail account settings (within your actual Google account) do you have IMAP enabled? I don't know if that would have an effect, but I believe this setting should be enabled.

Are you using iPhone 4 or 4s with an upgrade to IOS6? That's where the problem seems to be. I never had a problem sending email using standard Gmail profile under IOS5

I'm on iOS 6, but iPhone 5 and iPad 2, and no delay on either.

Yes, I have no problem with IOS6 on iPad2 or iPad Mini; it seems definitely to be an upgrade issue on the iPhone 4/4s.

Hard to understand why it would be hardware-specific. I just fired up my old iPhone 4 (also on iOS 6) and with a standard GMail iOS setup there is no delay on outgoing mail. So, unless this is an iPhone 4S-only issue, which I doubt, it may be your GMail account settings, or your gauging the timing of your outgoing e-mail on an account that only supports fetch, not push.

It's fine for some delays as long as you can use the app 🙂

I found solution in other thread:

After upgrade to 6.1 mail app was not in notification center anymore.

Activating mail app in notification center settings solves the issue.

enjoy!

By gosh, it works! THANK YOU!

Thanks a lot! It works!

Used to have this problem for quite a while. I'we told it to a lot of friends, iOS users, but nobody believed me.

I dont'k know exactly when it started: after iOS 6 update or after iCloud mail activation. Searched the net but no one complained.

Since the I've been struggling to send mail on gmail account using default mail app; I've noticed problems with mails that have attachments.

Now I had enough and searched again the net and I found this. Although some said Exchange doesn't work anymore on Gmail, I took my chance and found out it works perfectly fine.

Thanks!