Can't send mail when in wi-fi mode

I let my iPhone switch to wi-fi when I'm home because I only get Edge in the location of my house. How come when I try to send an email while in wi-fi mode, the "sending" progress bar just sits there for a while before returning an error saying that it couldn't send? I have to turn wi-fi off and let it use edge in order for the mail to go out. I'm using optonline.net as my mail server and someone at optonline explained to me how to get it to work on wi-fi back when I got my iPhone, but I have since forgotten. The mail settings for this account are as follows:
*_Incoming Mail Serve_r*
*Host Name*: mail.optonline.net
*_Outgoing Mail Server_*
SMTP
Primary Server: cwmx.com
*Ohter SMTP Servers*
mail.optonline.net (On)
cwmx.com (On)
AT&T SMTP Server (Off)
Advanced
Use SSL: OFF
Authentication: password
Server Port: 110
Thanks in advance guys.

My Last Confession wrote:
I think I figured this out. When I'm on wi-fi, I have to switch to using mail.optonline.net. But when using Edge or 3G, I have to switch to cwmx.com For some reason when on wi-fi cwmx.com doesn't work.
For some GOOD reason. If it did work when not on AT&T's network every spammer in the world would use it, because it doesn't require authentication.
You would think that setting the primary outgoing to mail.optonline.net and the secondary to cwmx.com would fix this, but it doesn't; I still have to manually turn off cwmx.com if I want to send successful emails from the iphone over wi-fi
This works for me, so something else is going on here. Have you entered your user id and password for optonline server correctly?

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