Q: iOS5 Mail crashing

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!

Nevermind! I spoke too soon. Mail still crashing. Definitely an iOS 5 problem. Apple, please fix this!

I'm getting the same thing guys on an iPhone 4 with ios5 installed.

Mail often crashes about 2-3 seconds after first loading before it even has time to check my pop account.

On other occasions, I get halfway through typing a huge email and it just randomly crashes, losing my entire message and not saving it into drafts or anything!!! Very frustrating...

Hopefully Apple will release an urgent update for ios 5.00 ASAP...

Hi David, Same for me the same on iPhone 3GS. It crashes while writting a mail!!

Im just writting in notes app and afterwards i copy the text into the mail. Realy sad.

I hope to have a solution soon.

Juan

I have the same problems, even since I upgraded to IOS 5 , both my Wife's and I iPad 2's, my 3GS, and her iPhone 4, all crash at random times while having the app open.  Replying to an email is tricky, because you never now if you will get enough time to actually send it off before it crashes. The mail app also crashed most every time between fast app switching as well instantly.

I end up dealing with this about 20 times a day!

Trying to reboot the iDevice, restore the iDevice, deleted the email accounts and put them back, or Apple switching out your iDevice, does not solve the problem at all!

There is a clearly is memory leak within the mail app that was never caught!  Apple needs to fix this!

Wonder how long until IOS 5.0.1 comes out?

same problem here, but this is not a issue of iOS 5.0, i had also in the last release of iOS4, and it's really annoying. I think that there is something like the text format of a mail or other things that crash the app as soon

as new messages arrive. But i'm also thinking about some problem with the server, even if i don't have any idea about how this can happen. As soon as my new messages are downloaded, the app crash. And it's a recent bug... What make my think about a server side inducted issue is that i never had a problem with mail and all this mess started like 1 month before iOS5 was released. Never had a single crash in more than two years.

PLUS: the things get solved after you sync with itunes! ***?

It does seem to be related to the content of the message. For some messages it is fine, with others it crashes every time I try to send a reply. I have restarted, restored, deleted and re-added my mail accounts and nothing seems to fix the problem.

My mail app crashed this afternoon as well -- iphone 4S/i OS5.  I was successful after deleting my accounts and reconfiguring them.  Working fine now -- so far.

Crashing for me as well.  iOS5 on an iPhone4.  It doesn't happen too often, maybe 5 times since the update to iOS5, but it's annoying nonetheless. It typically happens in the background though.  I'll notice that I hadn't gotten any email in a while, so I open the app to find it crashed.  After quitting Mail entirely and starting it back up, it works again until the next crash.

thank you greg184,

did exactly as you mentioned - all is good now

New iphone 4s crashes when loading imap inbox e-mail every time.

Deleted and manually restored account and the same thing happens.

Iphone 4 still works on the same account.

After upgrading all of our devices to iOS 5 I am seeing this issue. Our iPad and iPhone have the Mail app crashing issue. However, our iPad 2 was not. After looking at the differences I found that it's appears to crash when accessing a POP3 mailbox. On the iPhone I have my iCloud, Gmail and several POP mailboxes. After disabling the POP accounts I have not had any crashes. The iPad only has a POP3 account so that thing is unusable for mail. I added one of the POP accounts to the iPad 2 and it started crashing as well.

I've tried system resets, reboots and adjusted settings. I also tried the deleteing the mailbox and clearing everything thinking a message was corrupt suggestion. That did not fix anything. We just got a new iPhone in the family. This one is a fresh iOS 5 system (no restores from backup) same thing. Mail will crash. It's only a matter of time and if you can type fast enough to get your mail sent before it does.

This is a bug and needs to be fixed soon.

That makes sense. I added an iCloud account and disabled my IMAP account (but left the POP3 account enabled), and it still crashes, so it seems to be a problem with the POP3 account.

It's so frustrating. I finally convinced my father to buy an iPhone, and now I don't dare tell him about all of the problems I'm having with mine, because I feel bad having talked him into buying something so defective, especially since he's retired and has so little money. I also want my friends to "upgrade" to iOS5 so we can all use iMessage, but I don't dare recommend it to anyone.

I have an iPhone 4 with an exchange account only and my mail is crashing. So I don't think it's a pop3 issue.

My iPhone 4 has crashed 3 times since updating to iOS 5. All three times were replies to the same client who is on an Exchange server 2003. Can't help but guess it has to be something to do with this.