Can't send email over home wi-fi network

Everything about ihone has been great except for baffling email problem. Prior to this I've never had a problem setting up POP email on various Macs, PDAs, cellphones...
I'm in the UK so on the o2 network. I have correctly filled in all the correct recommended mail settings which others have reported as working.
Here's the problem:
- I can pick up mail fine when I'm connecting via home wi-fi, using my usual POP server
- I can send mail OK over the GPRS/EDGE network using o2's smtp server
- When I try to send an email using o2's server, but connecting via home wi-fi, the email never sends. It seems to lock up the email software which continuously attempts to send but with no progress on the progress bar.
This is driving me nuts as I want to use the o2 server so I don't have to switch between accounts whether home or not or whether on mobile network or wi-fi.
I have tried several times to reset the phone, delete email accounts and enter them again from scratch. I even did a total erase and reset of the iPhone but same problem.
Any advice please?
Thanks

o2's server will only work on their network (i.e., on EDGE and GPRS). If it worked off-network it would be a boon to spammers (an "open relay"). You need to find out if the ISP that provides your home Internet connection has an SMTP server that is available off-network, or you can find a "public" server such as gmail for sending.

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