First, if you look at the top of the article I have a more up-to-date description of the settings I use on my iPhone 3GS – this might help.

Second, I also have a 3G broadband dongle for my laptop (though I haven’t used it since I got the iPhone) but when I set this up I needed to use different settings to send emails. Some of the mobile providers allow you to receive emails from any email provider but block sending. You need to use their outgoing email server (the SMTP server). for T-Mobile I believe it is smtp.t-email.co.uk in place of the virgin media one.

I found an article about it at http://support.t-mobile.co.uk/discussions/index?page=forums&topic=801038039880be012a2b62080b007c49 which might help.

On the iPhone, if you set both the Virgin Media and T-Mobile SMTP servers up, with the T-Mobile one as the default, it might work both on Wi-Fi (if you’ve got Virgin Media broadband and Wi-Fi at home) and off.

OK, I know it works fine for me – I’m on an iPhone 3GS but it shouldn’t be too different. So, looking at my later article (http://www.kajabity.com/index.php/2010/11/an-update-on-iphone-email-settings-with-vodafone-and-virgin-media/) make sure you have the Incomming Settings/Delete from server:Never set.

Next, look at your online settings (see The resolution, 2nd point above) and go through them to ensure you haven’t configured it to delete emails once downloaded. It didn’t work before (the gmail POP3 didn’t delete) but they may have fixed it.

Other than that…?

First off, I set the mail account up on the iPhone with the same settings as my Outlook 2007 mail account on my PC (Except for the smtp settings, only put the smtp server name in, you don’t need the username and password, leave blank). The wife then sent me an email, which I received and replied to and it works fine.

Am I being really stupid? I would like my mail at the ntlworld.com address to download into Outlook and to my iPhone. The first few messages I received last night were received in Outlook and on the iPhone, but from about midnight they are now only coming into the iPhone and not into Outlook.

Don’t know if you or anyone can help, but it would be ideal to receive to both devices.

Thanks

Ciaran

It now works perfectly for me – See the settings in the second article (http://www.kajabity.com/index.php/2010/11/an-update-on-iphone-email-settings-with-vodafone-and-virgin-media/)

You need to make sure you enter the correct username and password for both parts – SMTP and POP.

I’ve added a more obvious link at the top.