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iPhone SMTP Port with Exchange

7 Responses (Add) | Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 at 2:29pm

Even though Exchange support on the iPhone is largely missing, I’ve been happy enough with it so far. Granted, I don’t rely on more than a few calendars and my own contact list on a daily basis – but having quick access to my email folders is sufficient for my needs.

Per Greg’s suggestion, I’ll be keeping an eye on iPXSync. I’m not sure if they’ll be creating a private label version for places like Rackspace, but something is better than nothing.

In setting up IMAP (Exchange) on the iPhone, I only ran into one snag. Seems you can’t easily set the outgoing SMTP port, which Rackspace has set to 2525 (as opposed to the default 25). The way around this is exceedingly simple. If you have a Rackspace account, set your outgoing server to owa.mailseat.com:2525 (no spaces). This port tweak is applicable for any SMTP provider, I suppose.

And here’s to hoping that Rackspace upgrades to OWA 2007 sooner rather than later…

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Matt Hartley

September 23rd, 2007
at 7:42pm

If it is Greg Hughes you are talking about, that would explain it – that’s where I found out about it myself. ;)

Matt Hartley

September 23rd, 2007
at 10:57pm

Duh Matt, N/M, just noticed the link to him in the post. It’s been a long day here. :)

Chris Clemons

September 24th, 2007
at 2:51pm

Hey, Chris. I was thinking… Since the iPhone has been dubbed a “computer with calling capabilities”, do you think it will be possible in the future to develop an open source software set for the iPhone? Kinda like Linux…? If developers could take the core OS of the iPhone and manipulate/add to/change certain features to benefit particular groups of people, I’d be all for it.

larry

December 5th, 2007
at 8:08am

Chris, Thanks! Your fix works perfectly.

David

December 14th, 2007
at 1:30am

Thanks, Chris, for the suggestion, which popped straight out of Google when I searched for “iphone smtp port”. This also seems to work if you’re using Google Mail’s smtp server on 465 and configuring it manually with a different pop server: smtp.googlemail.com:465.

Max

May 19th, 2008
at 1:28pm

Thanks, Chris. And I found solution for outgoing email using smtp.com

Lisa

June 6th, 2009
at 3:00am

Thank you so much for the port fix – it worked great with my Mac Mail outgoing e-mail. I was searching everywhere for a fix and thanks to you, I can now send my e-mails! Yea!

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