Cannot get mail the connection to the server failed

Update apple Id and password, this worked for me!

I get this message when I've changed my password on computer. the message should say update your password on iPhone. it sends you in wrong direction. so update password magically works. they need to modify error message.

I couldn't get my mail for at least 3 days - but it was working fine on my iPad and my office iPhone. I got so fed up I downloaded the yahoo email app and signed in.

Within an hour my iPhone email app was up and running perfectly.

- It's definitely worth a try if nothing else is working. I tried everything - deleting all accounts, changing passwords etc. Now I think of it I think I did he same thing by accident the last time my email didn't work And again it fixed itself. So maybe this is the trick.

I'm intrigued to see if it works for you guys - let me know.

Go to general go to bottom click reset and then Reset network settings it works!

I'm not sure if someone suggested this, but here's what I recently did when I was having issues with my google mail not syncing with my phone and my google cal not syncing from the phone to my gmail cal. I deleted the account from my phone and re set it up right after. Now everything seems to be playing nicely.

That used to happen to me as well. The most likely cause of this is that you do not have internet connection.

This was the BEST answer......

Yet so simple. I have been looking at all these responses which none helped.

Problem resolved.!

THANKS

Go to Settings > Cellular > USE CELLULAR DATA FOR and there turn on Mail. I had same problem, now everything is perfect.

The original poster John 32 has an iPod touch which does not have cellular

rxvargas wrote:

Go to Settings > Cellular > USE CELLULAR DATA FOR and there turn on Mail. I had same problem, now everything is perfect.

This worked for me.

Exchange mail worked for me after deleting unused partnerships. I followed steps as per below exchange outlook email.

You have 10 phone partnerships out of the maximum allowed 10 partnerships. After you reach the maximum, you can't create additional partnerships until you delete existing ones from your account. To do so, sign in to Outlook Web App, click Options > Phone > Mobile Phones, and delete any unused partnerships.

This worked for me, thanks.

you might have to update your password if you changed it i eventually figured this out for mine

Thank you, tried switching on off airplane, redoing password on account (I have so many pswds I can't keep them straight) and retrying and it worked!

Had this issue with my wife's new phone. Entered email address, which was verified. But each time mail was accessed we always got message 'connection to server failed.

We tried all of the various suggestion on this forum, but only one worked.

>Settings >Mail, Contacts, Calendars > (your email and delete account at bottom of page)

>Settings >Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account > Other (at bottom) > Add Mail Account

Name - add a name

Email - add your email address

Password - enter the password associated to email

click Next (top right corner)

Once verified everything should work?