Problem with iOS 7 and smtp Gmail

I am seeing this exact same problem. The settings even show the gmail as the outgoing SMTP server, but it uses the iCloud SMTP server instead.

I'm having the same problem. Ughh, its a painful one.

Same problem here on ipad mini. Upgraded from IOS 6 to IOS 7. I can receive emails but get the following error on outgoing:

"The connection to the outgoing server "smtp.gmail.com" failed."

I deleted the gmail account and re-added, and re-booted the ipad. No luck.

I don't use the roundabout iCloud method, though if this worked that'd be a great idea for push email. But with my GMail account set up the smtp.gmail.com server isn't working for both my iPhone and iPad under iOS 7. Tried deleting and re-adding the account with no luck. I don't know how much Apple or Google are to blame (yes, iOS 7 caused this, but Google's servers could be at fault not accepting iOS 7 requests for some reason), but hopefully this gets fixed soon as it puts a real damper on doing email on my mobile devices. I do think that we have established that this isn't something any actions of ours can fix.

+1 from me as well

As described before, neither my iPhone 4S nor iPad 2 sends mail through Gmail SMTP server after upgrading to iOS 7. When sending with iOS 6, I was able to see my sent messages in Sent folder of Gmail. Since iOS upgrade, there are none new. This means in my eyes that Apple ignores the settings (disabled primary iCloud SMTP server, enabled Gmail server) and nothing is sent to Gmail SMTP.

Same here on iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 4.

Using 2-factor authentication on Gmail. Tried reboot, delete, re-add account.

Weirdly, it didn't work yesterday, worked this PM (sent an email over 3G), doesn't work anymore.

Tried over WiFi and over 3G: same error message.

My wife was having the same problem, so I downloaded the Gmail app from the Appstore and she is using that without problems for now.

I have Gmail Exchange and it's working normally.

My secondary Gmail IMAP is also working normally.

No servers have been changed or modified from the i6 to i7 update.

I just upgraded two iPhones to an iPhone 5s and a 5c. On both devices the exchange accounts for gmail stopped working after restoring from iCloud back-up. I deleted the accounts and set up again as exchange, but no-go.

Everything was fine under iOS 7 on the previous phones (iPhone 4S & 5).

What gives?

B1G AL wrote:

I just upgraded two iPhones to an iPhone 5s and a 5c. On both devices the exchange accounts for gmail stopped working after restoring from iCloud back-up. I deleted the accounts and set up again as exchange, but no-go.

Everything was fine under iOS 7 on the previous phones (iPhone 4S & 5).

Google stopped supporting Exchange for free accounts as of 30 January 2013. Any phones that still had it set up can continue to use it (I do on my iPhone). You won't be able to set it up on any new devices (I couldn't set it up on my iPad after it was swapped out under warranty).

You can either set up Gmail as an IMAP account or use the Gmail app

Best of luck.

Al,

Google has discontinued exchange for gmail for new devices.

Thanks guys. I was aware of gmail stopping exchange support. Just didn't know why it worked until this morning and not on the new phone. I thought I was just lucky. I will set up all our devices on imap.

Thanks again guys

Sorry it wasn't better news.

you can touch "From" twice while sending mail and choose your preferred outgoing mail, very weird how it still sends emails using icloud while it's outgoing mail server is disabled and how do you make gmail outgoing as default?

looks like a bug