Try Downcast instead. MUCH better than the Apple app, and one more step towards making syncing with iTunes unnecessary.

There's a podcast app? Don't you just listen to podcasts under the main Music app? What am I missing?

You don't miss anything, download the podcast app on your own peril . If you have podcast app, the option to play podcast under music app will be removed.

OK. I listen to a lot of podcasts too, but never had an issue with the Music app. It is even improved in IOS 6 with the new 15 second forward button.

I think the relay you are using complicates the question, but not sure if it has anything to do with the issue or not. The issue is having separate outgoing smtp server settings for each email account, right? ios has had that, it's not new.

In settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendar, each email account has an independent setting for the outgoing (smtp) server. Each one has independent settings for username/password, so each account can use a different smtp server (or the same smtp server with different username/passwd as you might with more than one gmail account. ie. I have a different username/passwd for lihprem @... than I do for david...@ the same gmail smtp server)

Not sure what your issue is. Check your sig settings and outgoing mail settings. Make sure each gmail account is using its unique username (the gmail email address and passwd) for that account.

if you use their little wizard for setting up gmail accounts it should do it correctly, but you should be able to get in there and fix it. Google has a configuration page for your gmail account, I believe you can access it from the gmail settings page for that account using the web interface.

-David

Like I said, I can indeed configure different SMTP servers for each account, but my iPhone only uses the primary one. So I have configured one primary SMTP and anything else just goes into "Other SMTP Servers" and only get used if the primary is down or the password is wrong, which it never is.

Like I also said, this configuration is different in iOS6

I've never had the issue, on previous or current ios versions.

There's a default account .. it even says "message created outside of Mail will be sent from the default account."

But if you create a message in Mail, you get to select which mail account it's sent from (it uses the default, but if you click on the from address that's filled in, you can select a different account to send it from) or if you reply to a mail message, it uses that account.

No idea why you have a different experience. I'd have to see it.

-David

Settings > General > Reset All Settings

It wont erase any apps or data. You'll need to reset a few parameters, like keyclicks and rings tones, but the drain issue should subside.

I can indeed choose which account I send a new message from, that account though cannot choose which SMTP it uses

In IOS 5.1.1, and I believe the previous releases, there is a message on the config screen which says "Messages created outside of Mail will be sent from the default account". So if you are creating messages from outside of Mail, then indeed you will see this behavior. However if you create from within the Mail app, then it sends to the correct SMTP server.

Two things. One, why should I have to do this painful procedure? Apple designed the product to restore from backup. If I have to do this it means there is a bug and if there is a bug Apple should acknowledge it and fix it.

Secondly, from the huge threads on the Apple discussion board it seems there is a serious issue with many thousands of phones. Here is just one of the threads https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4329696?tstart=0

For some people a DFU is helping, but the iPhone 5 still drains way faster than the 4. Some people are just getting new phones at the Apple store which now magically work fine. Some people theorize there is a serious battery problem, others think it was a faulty factory flash. Either way BatteryGate is the new AntennaGate. Apple took months to acknowledge that, and they are refusing to acknowledge the battery problem now. One Apple rep even said "of course the iPhone 5 drains the battery faster. It has a larger screen".

To fix your problem?

It's a lot of work in my case and I shouldn't have to do it. And if thousands of others have the same bug, why doesn't Apple say anything about it?

I followed Apples procedures for setting up my new iPhone 5, but those procedures led me to have a phone with very poor battery life. Do they not have any responsibility here?

Any many of the reports say that taking this step helps improve things a bit, but that the iPhone 5 is still quite poor in comparison to their 2 year old iPhone 4 when it comes to battery life.

1) I am never, never, never, ever a fast follower, purchasing technology products on the date of initial release (and I make my living designing technology). There have been very well publicized/documented issues at the beginning launch of almost ever single iOS device (phone and tablet). In my humble opinion, there is absolutely no reason one must be "first" (unless your current phone is broke).

2) Whether or not people here believe Apple has "any responsibility" or not, is larger irrelevant; Apple is Apple. At this point, you should be pretty clear on how they roll, how they respond to reports of "perceived" field issues, etc. There is no reason for not being aware of this; there have been issues with every single new iPhone launch. You have a choice on whether to participate out of the gate or not.

3) There are other products available on the market if you don't feel like the products or the company are meeting your needs/expectations. It's really not clear to me that Apple has any real, current incentive to modify how they handle these things. Again, something has occurred with every single launch, and yet people simply continue to literally throw money at them.

And for the record, I say all of the above as a happy owner/user of several iOS mobility products (but absolutely never a fast follower)

Regards

I'm not a fast follower either, but I had to in this case. And just because Apple has a track record of not caring about the consumer doesn't mean that consumers shouldn't hold them to task. In fact if more people complained maybe things would improve. But yes, better that more people purchase Samsung phones. That would be the best thing and probably what I should have done.