Why is my Apple iPad asking for imap password so I can read my emails
I have tried sending an email to myself and it goes into outbox
iPad 2, iOS 9
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Your email is retrieved from your Mail Provider's IMAP server - and sent via its SMTP server. Your email account credentials must be provided to access both of these servers.
If email is failing to send or receive, you are likely to see indicative errors at the bottom of the mail sidebar - the wording of the error usually providing sufficient information to determine the nature of the problem.
If you lack the knowledge/skills to manually configure your email account settings on your iPad, deleting and re-adding your email account is sometimes the easiest way to resolve a problem with a specific Mail account. After deleting the account, perform a forced restart before re-adding the email account to your iPad.
- Delete account:
Settings > Mail > Accounts > [Your Mail Account] > Delete Account
- Force restart the iPad:
Force restart iPad - Apple Support
- Add Mail Account:
Settings > Mail > Add Account
Also be aware that some email providers now require the use of App Specific Passwords when accessing mail over IMAP or POP3. If this applies to your email account, you will need to generate a unique password for your iPad email account - that will differ from your normal Account Password. As examples - AOL, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft all use App Specific Passwords when using anything other than their own email client Apps.
If you need to generate an App Specific Password, you’ll need to log-in to your Mail Providers account management webpage - using a web browser - and generate the Password from the appropriate account security page.
More information about AOL’s App Specific Passwords can be found here:
https://help.aol.com/articles/allow-apps-that-use-less-secure-sign-in?guccounter=1
For Yahoo, more information can be found here:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN27791.html
For Gmail:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en-GB
Microsoft: