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When I try to reply to an email message on my phone I get the error:
Cannot Send Mail A copy has been placed in your Outbox. The recipient "whateveremailaddress" was rejected by the server because it does not allow relaying.
I used to be able to do this fine. but lately I get this on any reply I try to make.
My wife has a 4s as well on the same account and she can reply just fine. What could be wrong with my phone and email replies?
Steve
I can reply on my desketop at home and at work and my wife's phone on the same email server works fine. I just don't get it.

I've noticed in comparing my 4s to my wife's 4s that on mine the account says POP and on hers the mail account says IMAP. I haven't heard of IMAP. Could that be waht's causing my problem? I don't see any way to change mine to be IUMAP instead of POP.

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