Hi all.. Thanks for the informative posts...
I'm having trouble sending mail from my ppc-6700 with Sprint, and was wondering what most people use for settings for outgoing mail.
I was using "smtp.sprintpcs.com" and now for some reason it won't work anymore...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Bob Stovall

what i recommend doing is deleting the account from the device then create a new one and let it set it up automatically for you

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I am not having any problems at all and am quite a frequent user of it. Did you make sure that your settings haven't changed and you do have the box checked "Outgoing mail requires authentication"

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Let me go into a little more detail here...
I have four accounts total.. 2 from "cox.net" - One from my exchange server at work - and one .mac account. When I set it up for the first time it wouldn't check or send email. I called Sprint, and they said to use smtp.sprintpcs.com for the outgoing mail on ALL accounts.
Does this need to be this way? Can I not use my smtp.central.cox.net server, etc?

Yes, you will most likely have to use sprint's smtp server, unless your other mail accounts allows at least one of the following.

1. Open relays from any IP address (very doubtfull, spammers would find you and the server would be shutdown) less likely, an smtp server that allows relaying from sprintpcs.com, again pretty doubtful and dangerous.

2. Or, your smtp server allows authentication. Basically the mail server will ask for a username and password before it accepts your e-mail and sends it on. This is very possible as most systems allow this. You can ask for provider if they support pop before smtp, or IMAP authentication or SMTP authentication.

It has been just easier to use Sprint's smtp server, I have less problem with their servers than any others using this service.

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What settings as far as the other options for sprint pcs smtp in outlook are you using?

Disable WIFI. If you don't see the system dialing #777, then smtp.sprintpcs.com sees the mail as coming from a "foreign" network and thus will block it. That's to prevent spammers from spoofing your email address.

Everyone talks about Sprint blocking foriegn SMTP sites but coming from the Treo650 using Snapper on Sprint I had no problem using usa.net's SMTP. At the moment I can't seem to get usa.net or Sprints SMTP to work and it is very frustrating.

I thought I read earlier here or on another site that the problem was with pOutlook which would explain why a foreign SMTP worked on the Treo. Can someone explain why it worked on the Treo but not on the 6700? I just moved over a week ago so the answer can't be Sprint made a change a number of months ago.