Send email takes forever

When sending email on my iPhone using my work email account and connecting to my home wireless network, it says "Sending..." and sits there forever. It works fine if I switch to another wireless network or 3G (and receiving email works in all cases). So sounds like something wrong with my home wireless network. But I can send email using my gmail account on my iPhone when connected to my home wireless network. So it's something about the combination of my home wireless network and my work email account. My home wireless network is using Airport Time Machine (with WPA/WPA2 Personal and PPPoE). My iPhone settings for my work email are: SSL, password authentication, no IMAP path prefix, and server port 993. My work email server is Zimbra Server. These settings work fine on other wireless networks (and 3G), and other people at work have same iPhone settings. I'll bet there is something odd about my home wireless network, but I don't know what it is. BTW, I've had this problem since iPhone 1.0 and I'm now on 3.1. Any ideas?

Many email programs, including Mail, will send data up to a certain size.
The good new - there are some solutions. You can compress the file and make the email much faster to send; you can download a free application like Compress, which also allows you to uncompress. Or, you can send your email via your webmail connection (your ISP, like ATT); if you manage your email through your desktop computer, the email should be sent just fine.
Apple Mail is designed for smaller documents, well under 1mb.

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Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
I have experienced the same behavior. For me it is corrected by entering a primary and secondary DNS address in the modem. I think this behavior differs for some people, and must be related to interaction with specific ISPs. One thing to check and report, is to open the Activity window (click on Window in the menubar, and choose Activity) and observe when sending how much time is spent connecting to the SMTP vs transmitting?
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Many email programs, including Mail, will send data up to a certain size.
The good new - there are some solutions. You can compress the file and make the email much faster to send; you can download a free application like Compress, which also allows you to uncompress. Or, you can send your email via your webmail connection (your ISP, like ATT); if you manage your email through your desktop computer, the email should be sent just fine.
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hi,
i read through some previous topics on this, and tried the "opendns" solution suggested here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9652048&#9652048
this did not work for me. it's weird, though, in that when i do airport-->advanced-->DNS-->DNS Servers ("add") and try to add the new address/numbers suggested (there are already 2 in there, so i'm trying to add this new one as a 3rd), it won't "accept" them. i click "ok" then "apply" and then when i close and re-open, the newly entered address isn't there.
**anyway, whether that has anything to do with it or not, i don't know. but sending in Mail is epic. thunderbird is instant, as is web-mail. seems to be a problem here with Mail, not my ISP or email account. i receive email fine, it seems. i saw prev posts lamenting this slow sending, like 30 sec or a minute. mine is taking 30 min or more! just started last night, out of nowhere. on occasion in the past, i've had these random sending delays, though like a few minutes long, not this long (half hour to send! just the spinning "sending" folder thing). no idea why. i do repair permissions frequently, it doesn't help (incidentally, i can do RP back-to-back and i still get a host of things come up that get repaired, though none of which are listed as "Mail" folders...RP takes like 10 minutes, normal?).
any suggestions?
thanks,
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Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
I have experienced the same behavior. For me it is corrected by entering a primary and secondary DNS address in the modem. I think this behavior differs for some people, and must be related to interaction with specific ISPs. One thing to check and report, is to open the Activity window (click on Window in the menubar, and choose Activity) and observe when sending how much time is spent connecting to the SMTP vs transmitting?
I changed my Modem to have dedicated DNS address. It may be possible to do in the router, instead, but I did mine in the Modem. How that is done will likely depend on the brand of modem. You will likely need to query your ISP to get the server DNS number -- if so, they would be able to guide the change in the modem.
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It's probably quite simple, and nothing to do with your Address Book group.
It is a matter of 'junk mail' or 'spam' filtering on the recipient end, I think.
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