the new iOS 8.3 - Mail Connection Issues

I spoke too soon. The problem returned... I've been using iPhones since 2008, never had any problems with this same email account until iOS 8.3, so i just can't believe there is suddenly something wrong with my phone, must be a bug.. The only thing I have not tried is find out if there might be too many emails in my inbox, maybe a timeout occurs for checking these emails and you get the error message when opening the mail app.

You can try that.

I moved all my mail to archive and started with a clear inbox.

Error message and syncing problems still keep happening.

It has to be ios 8.3.

For me this all started there.

After installing Gmail App

the IOS MAIL APP FUNCTIONED OK

I had this problem. My workaround has been to install my Exchange gmail account as a regular gmail account. The only issues is that this is a corporate gmail account, so when I bring in the calendar - I have to make sure that my coworkers calendars are not checked. But it also means I have a way to check their schedules remotely.

Not ideal but a workaround until it is fixed.

Having the same issue also. Seems to go between my Outlook and Yahoo accounts. I really dislike the idea of having to download and use separate email apps for each provider. But this continuous problem may push me to that. My issues also started with the 8.3 update.

Guess how I found this forum!

We migrated mail servers at our office, and now, nobody with iphones running ios8.3 can access their email. The "settings>general>profiles" option has been removed, and no matter what we do, the phones will not recognize our Exchange credentials.

I am yet to see a solution. If I work anything out, I'll post it up.

I deleted all acounts, readded the exchange account and it appeared to work. Time will tell.

Good luck. But I've done that many times and only lasts a short time. I think the only answer is iOS 8.4. I hope Apple is taking this seriously finally.

Really disappointed in in what I consider quality in apple and this crap.

Same here, tried everything, restoring iPad, deleting all email accounts, recreating them, hard rebooting the iPad, etc.

It seems to work for a while then problem comes back.

An easy workaround to this, until a more permanant solution arrives, is to manually 'force quite' the mail app (doubt press home, swipe up) and relaunch it. My mail starts coming through fine for a while after doing that, but eventually it stops working again.

You called it! Just quit working. So did my boss's. Unreal. I already sold my MBP because of Yosemite wifi and never fixing it, but I'd hate to dump the iPhone.

Thanks. As you suggested all I needed to do was go into that account and shut off the 4 services. I then left settings. I then returned to settings and turned the settings back on - a little "thinking" was done (by my phone) and voila, when I returned to retrieve email the account (and all the others) worked.

Don't get too excited when you think the problem is fixed. Ive thought many times I found the magic bullet only to have problems return. It seems things erode over time. All works as it should and then one problem appears and then another and so on until things are so snarled up you have to do something. Reset network settings, restore phone, remove email and replace ,maybe just reboot. There has to be a flaw in iOS 8.3!!

I finally realized it wasn't just me and got inspired to fix because I was trying to send myself a picture. After reading all of these, I tried this and it worked.

I have an Ipad and I use yahoo mail

I went to "Settings"

selected "mail, contacts calendars"

at the very top is a line with a carrot pointing right (hard to see above "add account")

select that. Delete your email account (mine was a yahoo)

Now go back and add the same yahoo account you just deleted.

It worked for me and took a second but then it connected to my current mailbox and I was able to send some photos I took on Ipad via email.

Yeah!!!!!!

i have done that a couple of times. The problem just comes back. My Mail will just hang when trying to send, along with that "can't connect mail server" problem. Just kill the Mail app. I sometimes just hard reboot.

I have been in Safari and trying to email and it will hang. Killing both Mail, Safari will get it working again.

What we need is a nice case action suit.

Apple needs to be forced to make minor updates between IOS combine update releases.