Vanishing emails using mail.app

I'm having a weird problem with my iPhone 4 - three times out of four, it will completely fail to send a mail message. This happens with both my Gmail account and work email, and I've triple checked the settings on both and they're definitely correct.
What happens is I'll hit send and the bottom bar changes to "Sending mail...". No error message comes up, but when I go into sent items the mail isn't there, nor does it show up in Outbox or Drafts. It literally disappears into the ether!
It's been going on for a few months now and has been driving me up the wall. However through trial and error I have managed to ascertain the following:
It never happens when I am on wi-fi, only using mobile data
Sparrow works absolutely fine with no issues and I now use it as my Gmail client, but it won't send my work mails - just downloads them. According to our IT guys this is a mail server setting issue, as when I'm connected to the work wi-fi network it works fine
I also cannot upload photos on Facebook mobile using mobile data
I can't upload photos to Twitter via Tweetbot, but can with the official Twitter App
I had to stop using iMessage, as messages would frequently just not arrive on my phone
I'm on giffgaff if that helps. Screengrabs of my network data settings below:
Any ideas? It's driving me MENTAL!

Mac OS X 10.4.7 introduced connection issues in Mail similar to what you’re observing as a result of (according to the documentation) “Mail now supports connecting to mail servers through a SOCKS proxy”. If that’s the problem, it can usually be fixed by going to System Preferences > Network, choosing the network port configuration used to connect to Internet from the Show popup menu and disabling the SOCKS Proxy in the Proxies section, if it’s enabled.
And while you’re at it, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list.

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I upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard and having problems with my Mail application.
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Emails come in to my Inbox just fine.
And I am able to move emails from one iCloud folder to another, however.
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I use the standard mail app for 3 hotmail accounts (with my own domain name) & a work exchange account (which I turn on and off as required). These work well on iPhone 4 & iPad3 using IOS5.1.
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No, you can’t. Gmail doesn’t let mail to be downloaded twice by either the same or different POP mail clients.
I believe .Mac actually handles something like this but I do not have it.
Any IMAP account would allow you to do this. Actually, almost any POP account other than Gmail would also at least let you download the same mail on both computers. It’s just Gmail that doesn’t.

Upgraded to 10.4.9 now cant receive or send emails using Mail.app

I just upgraded to 10.4.9 from 10.2.8 and now the new Mail.app(v2.1) can't receive or send emails.
"Sent" emails only get to the Outbox for trying again later.
"Get Mail" is answered after 20 seconds with an error stating among other things "The attempt to read data from the server "xxx.xxx.xx.x" failed"
I connect to the internet through ethernet which is connected to my work's server setup. Ethernet is at the top of the list of the Network Config Options.
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Mac OS X 10.4.7 introduced connection issues in Mail similar to what you’re observing as a result of (according to the documentation) “Mail now supports connecting to mail servers through a SOCKS proxy”. If that’s the problem, it can usually be fixed by going to System Preferences > Network, choosing the network port configuration used to connect to Internet from the Show popup menu and disabling the SOCKS Proxy in the Proxies section, if it’s enabled.
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It all depends on the policy of whoever is the ISP at your new location and the method used by the outgoing (SMTP) server to determine whether you’re a legitimate user.
In an attempt to fight spam, many ISPs restrict the ability to send using an outgoing (SMTP) server not owned by them, usually by blocking port 25 for all traffic outside their own network, which means you cannot send with an SMTP server not owned by them if configured to use that port number. And it may happen the other way around as well, i.e. the outgoing server itself may look at the IP address you’re connecting from and refuse the connection if you’re outside its own network.
Something that often works is changing the outgoing server port to 587 (or whatever alternate port number the outgoing server listens to) instead of 25 and using some form of authentication in Preferences > Accounts > Account Information > Outgoing Mail Server > Server Settings, but two conditions must be satisfied for this change to work: (1) the ISP must not block that port as well AND (2) the outgoing server in question must listen to that port and accept a form of authentication not based on the IP address you’re connecting from.
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The following article, for example, describes several ways to address this issue in the case of .Mac, but can be useful for other mail accounts as well (not just .Mac), and applies to all versions of Mac OS X (not just Mac OS X 10.4.2 and earlier as the article states):
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Well, Lion will slow it down, but you have to get 10.6.8 Installed first.
Personally, I'd get an external drive to install 10.6 to, update it to 10.6.8, then Download 10.7 from the App Store & Install it on the external driive, leaving your 10.4.11 Disk to boot from if you need speed.
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General requirements
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Which apps work with Mac OS X 10.6?...
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
Buy Snow Leopard > http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Call Apple Sales...in the US: 1-800-MY-APPLE. Or Support... 1-800-275-2273
Other countries...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Lion#System_requirements
http://www.apple.com/macosx/how-to-buy/
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