Problem with iOS 7 and smtp Gmail

Hey, I found a workaround to my issue, which may help others set up email as you would want: Simply set up the email account using the generic maiil account setup where you manually enter server and credentials. This has seemed to "fix" my problem and may "fix" yours as well. Of course, what we really need is the way things worked pre-iOS 7 for these email setups to just work again. It feels like this being broken is a bug and not intentional.

Ok, so I have a work around for this that I have tested on my iPad 2 and iPhone 5 (both running ios7)..

So what you'll have to do is disable the mail from the iCloud options.

Go to the Mail App or (Add Account)

You'll have to choose Other

Name (Your choice)

Email (Your @me or @icloud email)

Password (Apple id Password)

(Make sure it's IMAP)

Incoming Mail Server

Host Name (p02-imap.mail.me.com)

User Name (@me or @icloud email)

Password (Apple id Password)

Outgoing Mail Server (Your choice... Mine being gmail)

Host Name (smtp.gmail.com ....Gmail..in my case)

Username (Gmail... in my case)

Password (Gmail pw in my case 😉)

Finally you save... Voila...

P.S. Push still works.. Really important to me. I have tested various times with the iPad and iPhone.

I named the new account "Gmail Workaround" just to keep it separate...when I send an email from this account it still shows up as @icloud.com, not @gmail.com....what am I missing?

I followed your instructions and emails sends my iCloud account is not getting push notifications when I configure it as an IMAP server.

When you were setting up the (other) email did you make sure and put the smtp as the gmail login information? Also did you turn off the mail from iCloud settings?

Did you make sure and use the p02-imap.mail.me.com as the incoming host name?

Yes, and the Fetch New Data screen says the iCloud SMTP account is Fetch instead of Push.

It's working, thanks

i removed my icloud account and set it up as other, i didn't put "p02-imap.mail.me.com" just "imap.mail.me.com" and smtp.gmail.com as outgoing and set icloud to be defualt account and enable it on notifications, push still works and even faster and all my outgoing mails are from the gmail account.

Like deh2k, this workaround doesn't seem to be working for me. Emails are still showing as being sent from @icloud.com as opposed to my @gmail.com address as was the case prior to the iOS7 update. I've tried with both the p02-imap and imap incoming servers. Outgoing server is smtp.gmail.com.

Any other ideas? Any acknowledgement from ape yet about this being a bug and when we can expect it to be fixed?

Thanks

If you set it as "Other" there is no way emails are going out from the icloud account, you need to put smtp.gmail.com as the primary server.

one more thing 😕

mail app showing emails are sent from the icloud account but are actually sent from gmail, send yourself an email and see.

It's from sending myself (and other people) emails that I know that it's still sending them from the icloud account. And the setup has been done using the "other" account from the email settings, using the detailed description above. The problem still persists.

Under fetch new data in mail contacts and calendar make sure and choose push.

I have the similar problem with using 3G and wifi with the different outgoing mail servers with IMAP

that it does not seem to search for a connection that will work and always stuck with one.

So, tried turning OFF the primary outgoing server and added it into the OTHER SMTP SERVER list

and turned it on there and it works ! It will now search for the one that will work in the list.

I wonder if there is some bug that prevented it from searching through the SMTP servers with the

primary one is set to ON ??