Setup Godaddy SMTP Outgoing Email on iPhone 3G
I recently had an issue getting godaddy outgoing email to work on my iPhone 3G. I set it up using the GoDaddy settings and my correct login and password but the phone would not sent outgoing email through SMTP.
I tried unsuccessfully:
Turning SSL on and off
Various SMTP Servers: smtpout.secureserver.net, smtpout.secureserver.net:80, smtpout.secureserver.net:3535 with no luck. I also tried the AT&T SMTP Server with no success.
What worked for me for sending outgoing email on my iPhone 3G:
Under the SMTP Settings Set the Primary Outgoing Mail Server to the Following SMTP Settings:
Host Name: smtpout.secureserver.net:465
User Name: youruser@yourdomain.com
Password: yourpassword
Use SSL: OFF
Authentication MD5: Challenge-Response
Server Port: 80
The real snake oil here is the :465 at the end of the smtpout.secureserver.net SMTP server host name. I am not sure why specifying the port here as 465 works and also setting the Server Port in the Settings to 80?
3 Responses to “Setup Godaddy SMTP Outgoing Email on iPhone 3G”
November 13th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Alon. Thanks for the response. I would have contacted GoDaddy but the forum posts seemed to infer some of the support techs wouldn’t be much help: http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-322229.html
This fix seems to be working 100% so maybe you can add it to your Knowledge Base 😉
Overall I am happy with GoDaddy’s web/email hosting and domain services I use and the post wasn’t meant to be a stab at GoDaddy.
December 14th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Thanks for the posts. I saw on another blog that email relaying needed to be turned on within the administrator settings at GoDaddy. I tried all of the many iterations on the various blogs and was not able to get both Edge and wifi to work until I allowed outbound email relaying.
November 12th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Richard and Stephanie,
I’m sorry to hear that you had so much trouble setting up email on your phones.
If you or any of your readers have any other problems, please feel free to contact our 24 hour Sales and Support teams at 480.505.8877 or support@godaddy.com. We’re happy to help any time of the day.
Alon
Go Daddy