Well,this is odd...SOME things not working on wifi

barryd09

Ok,using my iphone 4 in work on the wifi,safari web pages,live streams through the justin.tv app and most of my other usual stuff is working for me apart from gmail and facebook,they just wont update for me...

Any ideas?

barryd09

Ok,not so odd afterall...facebook is blocked in work so that makes sense but gmail??

Also,managing to block access through apps?never heard of this before!

guil

the app still has to connect to facebook.com

barryd09

And gmail?
I can access it through a normal safari page but when i go to my 'Mail' account,nothing!

bnt

Web pages use port 80, so Gmail on the web would work. However, the iPhone Mail client uses the "native" mail protocols and thus different ports, which are usually blocked in a corporate environment.

There may be a way around that - I say may because it depends on what your network administrator at work has decided, which I don't know and can't change. Set up the iPhone with a new mail account, but select "MS Exchange". The "Exchange server" name is "m.google.com", and the user name is your full Gmail account name. You can then sync mail, contacts and the calendar with Google.