the new iOS 8.3 - Mail Connection Issues

Having the same exact issue on my iPhone and iPad since updating... Great!

I met this problem before ( other version ), I saw other people facing problem with mail connection too...

GMAIL Accounts unusable after 8.3 update!

I've got the same issue too!

I Have the exact same issue. my workaround is using Microsoft's Outlook App and Gmail App, until Appke fixes it

Having the exact same issue

the new iOS 8.3 miscarried my wifi connectivity, solution?

I've tried everything and my iPhone 5 device will not connect to my Yahoo email. I guess we have to wait until apple sends an update on 4/10/15... I use Yahoo for my main email, gmail still works fine but the Yahoo account is not accessible from the phone. I can access it from my Mac... so that tells me the iOS 8.3 update initiated the issue.

I Just tried again and it's now working 🙂

See work around in following post. I'm having the same issue on my iPad Air.

Get "Cannot connect to Server" message when checking yahoo email account

I think I just fixed this issue. As opposed to being lazy like last time Apple came out with an update and I had this exact issue,

I went into my mail settings and turned off each mail account (mail, contacts, calendar, and reminder), and then i actually deleted my Exchange account (not sure if this was required).

• Added my exchange account back on
• Checked mail
• Turned a mail account back on
• Checked mail
• Turned another mail account back on
• Checked mail

I did this to see which account was the dodgy account. Needless to say, I think to turn off my accounts and back on fixed the issue.

I have the same problem with BT but not my aol addres, Apple problem I think, happened after update too.

I have the same problem with three separate email systems. To make it worse, I removed the email and attempted to put it back on to fix it, yeah... thanks Apple now my email won't even add back on. No wonder why all my friends went to Android and Samsung phones.

Same issue here since updated to 8.3. However, 8.3 fixed the issue of mail app reporting wrong date/time of last mail check. Also, the mail app actually DOES get mail even though it reports that it cannot connect to the server, at least on my iPhone 6.

I have a similar problem. Since installing the new update my virgin email works on my ipad but not my iphone 5.

Some applications like outlook.com (hotmail, live.com), gmail, and yahoo use two-form authentication. Since the iOS mail app has no way to provide the additional on-demand security code for a two-step authentication, you'll need to setup a special application password (see this article for info on Microsoft's version). http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/app-passwords-two-step-verification
Google and Yahoo have similar implementations. Until this recent iOS update, my outlook.com account worked just fine using my standard old password. It's possible the new update is now enforcing those rules more strictly. It was simple to remove and re-add the account, after setting up a special password at account.live.com. Use that password instead of the one you would normally use on the outlook.com website.

This might not be the case for everyone, but I hope it helps some of you.