iOS5 Mail crashing

Same here David

Mail constantly freezes up. I'll have to open up the running apps list, kill it, and re-open it for it to check for mail.

yeah, I just got my new 64gb 4s, and I've been trying to write a fairly long e-mail (my first on the new phone) but three times the Mail program has crashed when I was almost done composing--it's making me nuts! I don't know what to do, but I'm scared to keep trying, because it's a lot of work to do all that typing. Maybe I'll compose it on my Dell laptop at work, send it to my personal address, then forward it from there, but that's not going to be an acceptable alternative for the next 2+ years!

My mail app is working fine in iOS 5 on my iPhone 4. Have you tried rebooting your iPhone?

Yes, that was my first thought too. Sometimes it crashes after only being open for a few seconds, too. Not sure what else to try—I didn't change any settings after synching with iTunes to load the settings from my last phone (iPhone 3G).

On Iphone 3GS. Since the upgrade to iOS5.0, mail crashes when hitting reply every time, however new emails and forwarding doesn't crash the app. Forwarding instead of replying might be a work around until someone at Apple adds it to the list of fixes to do in V iOS 5.0.1 available when enough people shout at them loud enough. Remember the alarm clock nonsense?

When this bug appeared in the past many suggested a hard reset (press power button + home button until the apple logo appears) and a soft reset (switch it off and back on again). That has no effect on my 3GS.

Forwarding from now on.

I'm having the same problem. Mail keeps crashing when replying from my gmail accounts on iOS 5 (on iPhone 4). I've already lost two messages I'd spent significant time composing. This is a major bug and needs to be fixed!

I'll throw my hat into the ring here as well. In my case my accounts were migrated through iTunes sync and they are normally working. However, I have random crashes of mail. Sometimes when launching the app, sometimes when attempting to reply, but always when some kind of user action has been called for.

I did the rubber chicken things rebooting the phone. I also powered off the phone and powered it back on. No change in behavior, and no delay in time before it occurs. Killing the app and relaunching doesn't help either. I've also not tried doing a restore of the phone.

I've noticed other apps crash from time to time but nothing on the order of mail. However, it could be they've not been updated to IOS5 compatibility. I expected Apple's apps to be fully tuned.

So, is this a software bug, or a possible hardware malfunction?

Same problem here. iPhone 4s using iCloud mail account that was converted from MobileMe (don't know if that has anything to do with it). Mail app crashes very frequently when drafting emails, but also when just reading an email. I've lost several drafts as I'm in the middle of typing a reply. Frustrating!!

I'm having a similiar issue with my iPad first-gen as well. Mail app opens but as I try to delete emails it will freeze and then the app closes. When I open it back up any emails I thought I deleted are back. Seems to be working on my iPhone 4 thought.

I had the same problem, instant crash. After deleting and adding my mail accounts back, the problem is gone.

Go to Setting on your iPhone, then 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars', then click one at a time on your accounts. In the specific account settings, scroll to the bottom, and delete the account (all of them, one at a time). If you already have iCloud, it won't matter if you delete your information on the iPhone or not, you'll be given the choice to merge them when you add the account back. If you sync via iTunes on the computer, you can sync then as well. Always keep a fresh backup of your contacts somewhere besides you iPhone!

Then simply add your accounts back.. Use your iPhone in settings, or just open the mail app on your iPhone after deleting all accounts.

I went to the Apple store, and they did a complete software restore, but when I re-configured it with my e-mail settings, it was still crashing. So I went back again, and they replaced the handset. Sadly, it still crashes, so I guess it has to be something weird about the new OS that's incompatible with my e-mail settings or something. Good thing I haven't "upgraded" my iPad to iOS 5 yet, since it is configured the same way (as was my previous iPhone). I guess I'll have to try accessing my e-mail some other way--right now I'm using POP and IMAP, but maybe I could try setting up Exchange ActiveSync. Seems wrong to resort to a Microsoft solution to keep my device from crashing, though.

I have the iPone 4 with the latest OS. My mail displays one mailbox instead of the different ones I usually can see. Only way to fix is to reboot. Is Apple aware of this?

Ok, I've got it fixed now! It hasn't crashed at all today. I needed to delete all my mail accounts. but the outgoing server settings don't get deleted when you delete the mail accounts for some reason. So I added my iCloud account first, then I was able to drill down to the alternate outgoing servers to see that sure enough, server settings from my deleted accounts were still there. I deleted them all. Then after a few hours of no crashes, I added my other email account. Now all is well!