Replying to mail puts outgoing message in outbox

Both my wife and I (3g and 3Gs respectively) downloaded ios4 and since then we cannot reply to mail messages on the 3G network, though on WiFi it works OK. Here's a simple example - she sends me a message and it arrives on my iPhone. I go to reply and the error message is: Cannot Send Mail. A copy has been placed in your outbox. The recipient "%@" was rejected by the server because the user is unknown".
In other words, her legitimate email address has been converted to symbols. This happens no matter who the sender is.
Other points:
1) I have tried removing the email account on the iPhone and re-entering it
2) It happens only when we use our telecom's usual outgoing mail server (as we have been doing on our phones for years). It does not happen with MobileMe mail accounts.
3) Our telecom say they have never come across the problem before
Is this an ios4 issue? It's beginning to look like it, as it never occurred before we downloaded the update.

Have been having similar problems with iPod touch and Yahoo mail after upgrading to IOS4. If I knew this was going to happen would never have upgraded. Didn't know enough to save shsh blobs piror to upgrade so looks like I'm stuck on 4 for now!! http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2526759&tstart=0

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Welcome to the Discussions. Searching the Discussion is a powerful tool. Recently a similar report was discussed, and at least one resolution found, based upon the fact that the Mail folder was missing the Mailboxes folder, where both the Outbox.mbox AND On My Mac mailboxes (New Mailboxes) must be stored. Read:
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I have a useless script that works.
tell application "Mail"
set newMessage to make new outgoing message ¬
with properties {content:"My name <[email protected]>"}
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end tell
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Applescript only has access to the objects and properties in the various dictionaries; for mail, as you have discovered, this does not give access to much for an outgoing message. In particular, you cannot access headers such as date or priority or reply-to. If, as in your script, you are making the outgoing message visible before sending it, then you can fill in the reply-to field by hand, but short of trying some gui scripting you can't change it via applescript.
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Hi,
I have an issue with mail that has finally annoyed me enough to post about it and hopefully resolve. When i reply to messages mail includes the reply as an attachment (text file) rather than inline in the message.
Has anyone got any suggestions? I have tried the options for keeping the message as the same format, tried the options for increasing quote level.
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Scah,
a few questions to better understand:
1. what is attached as a text file instead of inline - your reply or the original message?
2. what message format are you using? (It is under Mail-Preferences-Composing)
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I only use Gmail but I see activity as I write an email - syncing changes, drafts, updates on Google mail server.
Direct you to the proper forum for MacBook :
MacBook Series Forums
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
Mac OS X Forum
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
Mail support and Setup Wizard
http://www.apple.com/support/mai
This forum deals with a desktop/tower 65lb Mac Pro
http://www.apple.com/support/macpro

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I find this very frustrating because in Eudora (which I used to use), the "From" field in outgoing messages is visible by default. But in Mail, not only is it not visible by default, there seems to be no way to make it visible.
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Thanks for replying.
What is the "compose window" to which you are both referring? I could find no reference to such a thing in the Mail menus or Help.
Do you mean the "Composing" pane in the Preferences? I don't see what either one of you is referring to there, but I did notice there something that could function as an awkward workaround: If I click on the "Automatically CC myself" box in Preferences>Composing, then when I start a new email, my email address is displayed in the "CC" field -- and luckily, Mail allows me to then delete my email address out of the CC field, so I don't have to spam myself with duplicate copies of all my emails. This way, I can at least briefly see what email address I'm using, before I delete it from the CC field. Pretty awkward and unnecessarily laborious, however -- still not a perfect solution.
Or, by "composing window," are you referring to an outgoing email? As I said in my original comment, I do see what Ernie called "a small box with lines and an arrow at the bottom left of the header box." This is what I had to say about it:
+"In the "Customize..." button to the left of the Subject field in outgoing messages, one has the option to add as default outgoing message fields "cc," "bcc," "Reply-To," and "Subject," but none of those are what I want. It allows one to also view the address of the mail server, but that also is not what I'm looking for. What I want is to see my outgoing email address. And nowhere is there an option in the Preferences to turn this on. (At least as far as I could tell.)"+
In other words, when Ernie says, "click the box beside From," I can't do that -- because there is no such option. That's the whole problem in the first place. If there was a "From" field beside which I could click a box to make it appear, I would have done so! But there is no "From" field in the "Customize" section of the "small box with lines and an arrow at the bottom left of the header box."
I find it completely mystifying that both of you seem to be able to see a "From" field available to be added to the header of outgoing emails, yet no such option is available to me in Mail. What possibly could be causing this? 10.6.4 is freshly installed on my machine, and Mail seems brand new and uncorrupted. And I'm using Mail 4.3, the latest version.
Are you saying that everyone else can see an option to have a "From" field in their outgoing messages, but I uniquely don't? Very very very strange.

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