Configuring iPhone for Google Apps Email

I have to share this tidbit of information since I spent a considerable amount of time trying to configure my iPhone to work with Google Apps Premier. At Ublip we’re using Google Apps Premier for our email, docs, spreadsheets, etc. Ever since I purchased my iPhone I’ve been using mobile Safari to check my Gmail account. This has grown a bit old so I decided to take the plunge and start using the POP service. I referred to this very useful howto for configuring my iPhone. Yet two very important pieces of information were left out and caused me much frustration and distraction. After you go through the eight steps make sure you do the following:

1. Enable SSL for outgoing email (under the Advanced menu in your mail settings)
2. Specify a username/password for SMTP auth (these are your full email address and password)

That should get everything working as expected. I hope this saves you an hour or two of hassle.