Interesting note when setting up mail accounts

Hi everyone
I must say, I've only had the iphone for 2 weeks and love it. I'm a long-time mac user, and finally got rid of my smart phone from work and replaced it with the iphone. It's the killer app, and does more than I ever imagined.
I just thought this info below on setting up email may be of interest to those having issues, as my experience may help.
Everything set up and sync'd great: mail, calendar, songs, etc...no problems, that is until configuring email. I have 3 different accounts 1) private roadrunner account via time warner, 2) work email, and 3) Google
Google
Worked great, just followed the on-screen set up. Selected Google email, entered my user name and password, and all was AOK...sending and receiving.
Work Email
Obviously I needed to get the outgoing server configuration to send emails. And I know the iphone and the mail app is not really at fault per se for some issues, as you need to get the right data for it to work...however, making the various attempts to change the settings (trial and error, trying different port settings, etc) seemed to change other settings. For example, when i changed the outgoing setttings in a specific account, then switched out from the setting function to the mail app, i found out latter that my incoming settings were 86'd for that same account. I went to re-enter them, over and over to no avail. Seems like the process for changing the incoming/outgoing settings affect one another.
bottom line, i finally was able to send work email, after completely leaving the outgoing area blank (yes, blank), then under advanced, plugging in 25 for the port. How this works is beyond me, but it's working.
Roadrunner
First, same issues as above. But I had to search message boards for RR's outgoing server...it ended up being cwmx.com...but again, you have to leave the outgoing user name and password blank, then under advanced you set the port to 25. It works, and i'm not fu%king with it!
Hope your email set up goes better than mine.
Cheers,
Stephan

which preference files did you trash? did you trash homedirectory/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist? if have not set up any accounts then quit mail and try trashing this file. then start Mail and see if you can set up an account. if that does not help, create a new user account, log into it and try setting up Mail there.

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