Lost messages when sending email offline with iOS6?

Yes, I have encounted lost email replies both on my cell phone connection and via WiFi, and both times my email response was completely lost and had to be rewritten. I have just attempted to resend a message once again and it is now in "send" mode with a twirling progreess circle for going on five minutes after the swooosh sound would have indicated a completed send. I have been very pleased with the speed of the new iPhone with AT&T LTE service in general, but this appears to be a major Apple software issue.

My boss is having the same issue with iOS6. I turned his iPad off and back on and it seems to work now. I don't know if the problem will reoccur or not, but turning it off and back on could help in a pinch.

I have a similar problem with iOS5.0 on iPad 2 where Gmail emails that are sent generate an error "connection problem" and then the email just disappears. It is not saved to drafts, and there does not appear to be an outbox. This is intensely irritating.

I have experienced a similar problem. Having sent an email and heard it go (the "wooshing" noise) I noticed a few minutes later the small symbol next to my btinternet mail box indicating that it had lost touch with its server or gone offline. I didnt think much of this but the next day I noticed that this email is not in my sent emails ( I double checked by logging into my BTemail account online and it is not in the sent email folder there either). The email was not sent, and is not saved as a draft. That's 30 minutes work gone to waste and the only reason I have found out is that I suspect this has happened before so I made a point of checking sent items. On previous occasions I have thought that maybe I deleted the email by mistake, or didnt press send or made some other mistake. This time though I definately pressed send, definately heard the wooshing noise, and the email is now gone.

The solution would seem to be to stop using Apple's Mail system to send emails and log into the mail account on line.

I am also having this problem. I tried to power off and on again, but no luck. When others have powered down, do the missing emails reappear, or have they gone for ever?

Yes, I'm using 6.0.1. More digging suggests the issue may be that I'm using Mail to connect to an Exchange server, and a solution would be to set the Draft folder to be on the iPad not on the server. Unfortunately, when the account is an Exchange account, you dont seem to have access to the advanced mail options, and so cannot change the location of the Draft folder!!

Mike - I tested something that seems to get around this problem, albeit in a messy way.

If you turn off the wifi or turn on the Airplane mode then email messages do get stored in the outbox and delivered when wi-fi is reconnected. Maybe this is what you have just tried to do. But if you have wi-fi, but not connected to a network, then it seems to think it has successfully delivered the email, and it then disappears.

So, if I am right, the workaround is to use the Airplane when travelling (even on the ground!)