Problems sending email in AOL

I'm extremely pleased with my iPhone which I only purchased 2 days ago but its driving me up the wall at the moment.
I have set up my AOL account and I receive and can view emails but when I try to send emails I get the following message: -
Cannot Send Mail
The connection to the outgoing server "smtp.aol.com" failed.
I have tried changing the smtp settings but to no avail.
I'm sure that it must be the settings rather than a fault as I did a Google search and someone mentioned Exchange Authentication settings but this didn't mean anything to me.
Please help!

I'm afraid changing the SMPT to o2 hasn't worked for me.
Can anyone suggest anything else. i've tried turning off Wifi.

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