iPhone 5 iOS 7 can't send from gmail account

Cant help much - But they have changed something with the outgoing SMTP I cannot send mail but recive no problem - Started yesterday with the update - There is no way to edit the default iCloud SMTP anymore

Just adding another voice to this issue. I am also experiencing the same problem. Very frustrating.

I have spent about 4-6 hours working directly with folks from Tim Cooke's office, various support levels, and through them their engineers.

As much as I tried to convince them their logic is flawed, the engineers for iCloud come back and say this is expected behavior because somehow it helps secure iCloud from being a spam source. The fine and helpful gentleman from Cooke's office now understands how it is a MobileMail.app client issue, having nothing to do with iCloud servers (because we are in fact trying to bypass their servers) still totes the "it's expected behavior" line from the server engineers.

I have implored him to follow up with the iOS MobileMail app programmers and not the iCloud programmers. I am hopeful he will. Until then you have to choose between having iCloud push and losing your online identity, or losing push email and keeping your preferred address.

Fun to try: turn off all smtp servers. Send email. Gets stuck in outbox. Turn on your preferred smtp server. That one email will use your preferred alternate address, but subsequent ones revert back to the old .me.com smtp servers. Personally I believe this points to a client programming error more than reinstating a preferred behavior. Aggravating!

I spend $500 on a new phone. Google takes away my exchange client ability and apple makes me choose push email vs outgoing email address.

I am having the same problem...

Now I can not send emails for work form my phone. I can only send email via Gmail, but if I try to send from my work address, which nowmally I also send via Gmail, it tries to send it through a non existent SMTP server using my work domain even though the default SMTP is set to Gmail...

This has wrked fine for literrally 5 years with 3 different iPhones and now I am screwed.

I spent 1.5 hours on chat with Apple support and found the resolution to my problem... Hopefully this helps some others as well.

When I updated iOS to 7.0.4, for some reason it changed a setting in Mail and turned off the secondary SMTP servers.

If you go to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars> Then choose the mail account that is not working, then click on the Outgoing Mail Server, you should see a Primary server and at least 1 "Other SMTP Servers".

In my case, all of the Other Mail Servers were Off. Apparently the upgrade somehow caused thes to toggle off.

All we needed to do was to toggle it back on and that did the trick.

Now I can send mail from my work email again and it sees the proper SMTP server.

Hope this helps you all as well!

My fix to this problem (gmail not sending from the defult email in iPhone 5s) was the one given on the gmail help page:

"If you tried configuring your SMTP server on port 465 (with SSL) and port 587 (with TLS), but are still having trouble sending mail, try configuring your SMTP to use port 25 (with SSL)."

No problems after switching the outgoing SMPT port to 25 :-)

Creator0: yes! All other outgoing servers were turned off (I have 7 or so). I turned them all on and my message sent.

Thank-you!!

Creator0: I switched my outgoing servers back on as well, and it worked! Now gmail emails send without difficulty.

I also changed my gmail outgoing SMTP port to 25.

Thanks for your help!

At last! Thank you very much. Worked for me after a long headache session.