Mail keeps crashing

You could try a restore

I had the same problem with the iPhone and the iPad tonight. I have a POP, Gmail and Exchange account. I turned off and on each account until I realized that the POP (Shaw) account was to blame.

I made sure that I had all my emails on my mac first.
Then I isolated the it to the POP account by turning off each account.
I went to the online website of my email and removed all erroneous emails that could hang the server or the devices.
Shaw Cable has an alternate "Host Name" so I removed the "POP" host and used the high speed cable host. It will work the same as its on my home/local wifi.
The problem went away.
When I reverted back to pop.shaw.ca as a host, the problem appeared again.

I had a similar problem and we are with Shaw too. I called Simply Computing where I had bought the iPad and they thought it was a corrupt email. They suggested deleting all emails from webmail including Junk and deleted mail. I did this and Mail still crashed as I wasn't able to keep it open long enough to delete the emails on iPad. I had to delete the account on iPad and set it up again as a POP account and Mail is now working well again.

I have the same problem. I have 2 Shaw accounts on the Ipad. 1 is working fine the other crashes sporadically and then repeatedly. After reading the posts I disabled the offending account moved all mail from my inbox on the Shaw server (Shawmail) to drafts and changed the host name on the ipad settings to shawmail.cg.shawcable.net from pop.shaw.ca as recommended by Shaw's website. Once I put the mail account online it was stable and worked fine. However when I transferred the emails on the shawmail server from draft folder to inbox the Ipad account crashed again. Not sure where to go from here. I've had the Ipad for slightly more than 2 weeks and have battled this "bug" for the last week. None of the emails are spam or anything special. Any suggestions are welcome. Apple's clueless about this.

Take a second look at your emails that you have added again to your account. Any signs of a "Return to sender" or "Mail Delivery Error" message? These can sometimes be a cause for the Mail crashing.

I have just come up with this porblem as well; the Mail app will not stay open more than a few seconds; I know that I have had a "Mail delivery error" on one of the 3 accounts (from my iPod, which still works). We are with shaw as well, so I'll try to isolate and delete the "Mail Delivery Error" message from Shaw's server, then see what happens. Wish me luck, and I'll report back,
Regards,
Brew Too

I took the advice given by others, and it worked:
1. deleted the problem account (1 of 3) from the iPad - the Mail app started working again on the other two accounts.
2. I went on to Shaw's webmail, and deleted deleted the one "Mail Delivery Error" message from the server;
3. I re-installed the previously deleted account onto the iPad, and it is now working fine.
I hope this helps others.
Regards,
Brew_too

**I think that Apple needs to discover and resolve the software glitch in iPad software that causes the Mail application to hang when a "Mail Delivery Error" message comes in and is not deleted from the server. NOTE: This has in no way affected my iPod Touch, which has four accounts and had 3 (now 2) "Mail Delivery Error" messages on it. **

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I have been frustrated with the same problem. Mail crashes on both accounts when I tried to delete the messages, one of which is undeliverable mail. After a few tries Mail crashes in a second or two.
I deleted both accounts a reinstalled one of them, and the messages were still there, and Mail still crashed in spite of deleting all my mail on the Shaw server. I even renamed the new account, no matter, it still crashed. Does this mean a total reinstall of the operating system?
The dot me account is the third one and it’s fine. I live near Nanaimo BC and use Shaw for my main mail address.
Getting nowhere, not even fast!

I finally spent 1.5 hours with support on line. He really knew what he was doing and very helpful. I had to back up all the apps, restore, then set up the mail accounts again. Instead of two Shaw accounts, now there’s only one account - with a pop for incoming, and a primary and a secondary for outgoing. There may have been a corrupted app, so I’m only reinstalling several apps at a time from the computer. The .me account is back in again but never did give any trouble.