first let me say that i don't use forums much, so please be patient with me. i am so annoyed with my iphone. i can't get my email set up, i use cox and when i go to the cox website, in my area they give me my incoming and outgoing servers as pop.central.cox.net and smtp.central.cox.net, when i put this info in i get an error for my outgoing server, saying that the verification has failed and that the smtp server is not responding... can someone please help me? thanks!
Be forewarned, that I don't have an iPhone, but I do have Cox, so I think I can provide half the answer....
To use the COX e-mail, you will always use the incoming (POP) server as listed. The Cox SMTP server is REQUIRED and is the ONLY server that works for outgoing mail *when* you're connected via WiFi to your cable modem / router at home. However, it will NOT work unless you are actually on the Cox network. That means that, as far as I know, you can't use the Cox SMTP if you are connected by EDGE. Is that what you're trying to do?
To everyone else: does the iPhone have an easy solution for this issue -- e.g. tying different SMTP servers to different connection modalities? This is something I run into a lot with notebooks -- at home, I *must* use Cox SMTP, at school I must use UF's SMTP, etc, etc.