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I am unable to download my mail using the native mail app after upgrading to IOS 18. I am getting the following error; “Network Error (POSIX 96)”
The mail configuration is on imap with SSL.
iPad Pro, iPadOS 18
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My issue was fixed by going to IMAP settings and restyling over the greyed out forward slash after the IMAP server address.
I backed out of settings and shutdown the iPhone, and the restarted it a minute later. After the phone rebooted I went to mail and pulled down the mail to refresh it from the server. After a few seconds (which I think was the IMAP server resyncing with my mailbox, all my mail for the last few days came down. After two days it is behaving as it should with new mail appearing when it should. I note that this problem was not evident in my iPad which is iOS 17.x and not on my M2 MacBook Pro, nor on my partner’s iPad with iOS 18.1. I can only conclude that Apple can solve the mystery of this and the other issues with email that can’t be solved with this fix.
Obi1net wrote:
Hi George. My apologies for not being clear.
Yes that greyed out slash was the one I meant. By typing over it I meant that I typed a slash to replace the one that was greyed out so that it was black as other text appears when you use the keyboard. It fixed my problem after I did this and rebooted. The exact solution was needed a few days later but so far the fix stuck this time. Sadly I think this is just one symptom of other issues.
Thanks very much for the crystal clear reply.
Delete you present email account in Mail and reenter it.
It’s not an outlook account. Just a simple imap based account. I just used outlook as an alternate mail client.
I use the Outlook.com option on iOS Mail for Hotmail and Outlook emails. Others have switched to the Outlook app from the app store to get around the Mail snafu on both iOS and ipados.
I have experienced Hotmail asking me to relogin on my phone. Haven’t configured it on my iPad so can’t comment on that. Seemed like a periodic revalidation of login credentials to me.
Seems to be the closest to a solution apart from waiting for Apple to fix this. What changes did you make to fix this?
Exactly the same happens here!
How do I fix it
I have an entire Airline Pilot group who uses this Apple Mail app and all are down when it comes to opening attachments.
Re-add your Hotmail account using the Exchange option.
Thank you for this suggestion but i have the mail problem in IOS18 without using any vpn or vpn app
Same problem but mine is POSIX 61. Only on phone with IOS 18, not on Ipad.
I know have this problem any idea when it will be fixed?
Error in downloading mail on IMAP after ios 18 upgrade
