Consistently get "server imap.gmail.com is not responding" in Mail

Let me add back in once more, that this continues to happen to me with my 5S, still on iOS 8.4. This is NOT a 9.x issue. Waiting seems unlikely to solve the problem, as Apple clearly has no interest in this.

My issue had not surfaced for a couple of weeks, but was back this morning. Trying all of the standards: kill the app, reboot, etc. I've always had to delete the account to get Gmail back working again, which is beyond annoying.

Just wanted to chime in to say - me too. Same exact problem. iOS 9.1... Have to delete and re-add the specific gmail account(s) to fix the problem(s).

Right now two of them aren't working. One is gmail the other is Google apps. But 4 other gmail and Google apps accounts are working just fine.

Are you sure you have to go that far? Have you tried killing the app (double click home and swipe it up)... That gives mine a quick reset and then it works ok for a short time.

The long term fix is to remove the account and re-add gmail as a IMAP account as I outlined in my previous post: Re: Consistently get "server imap.gmail.com is not responding" in Mail

I did it and it fixed the problem for my gmail and google apps accounts perminately.

I have had this exact issue on both my iPhone 5s and now on my iPhone 6s, always with the most current software updates. It only happens when I power up the phone in the morning after it's been off all night. I can turn it off and on during the day for shorter times, and there is no error.

The daily solution that I've found is to simply double click the home button to display all running apps, swiping them up to shut them down, and then open the mail app with no other apps running. It works every single time, and runs fine for the entire day regardless of how many apps I have running after that, until I shut it down at night and restart it in the morning.

This is clearly an Apple Mail app problem, since nothing changes with the gmail service from the first power on access by the mail app to every subsequent access, and yet they refuse to acknowledge or fix it.

I would be very interested to know if this approach works for all of the others who have experienced this problem, and would certainly like to see Apple finally own up to and fix this issue.

Okay, it's now been almost a week since I upgraded to iOS 9.2 on my iPad and iPhone without a recurrence of this problem. That's the longest I've gone without it happening since it started with 9.0. I think it's fixed. Is anyone else still getting it using 9.2?

I also updated to 9.2 about a week ago and believe that the error has not occurred since around that time. When it did occur, I would double click the home button and needed to swipe up only the mail app to shut it down, as opposed to my original post of needing to shut down all suspended apps. When I relaunch the mail app, it always connects correctly and continues working regardless of how many other apps were suspended.

I too was plagued by this issue between iOS 9.0 through iOS 9.2.

I just now decided to switch to Outlook for iPhone and was immediately able to send and receive mail!!

Since the most recent iOS update (9.2' 13C75) which included mail client updates, this problem has been resolved for me. I worked with someone from Apple support over a period of 4 weeks to troubleshoot and track this issue, and it has not recurred since this update.

A few days ago I did the upgrade to 9.3.1 (13e238) on my iPhone 4 - and up comes the problem.

I have tried all the check account settings / delete + recreate account / less secure apps / ports / SSL / google 'How to' / Apple support 'How to' / etc.

It does not affect my Macbook running OS X 10.9.5 (13F1712)

It does not affect my iPad using 9.2.1 (13D15)

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I Too am getting this problem, only it is with my Talktalk accounts (UK). The message reads "Cannot get Mail the mail server 'mail.talktalk.net' is not responding. Verify you have entered the correct account information in mail settings."

i Have re-entered my passwords until I'm blue in the face and this problems persists. I get it every few minutes despite the fact that emails are being sent and received. It is very annoying and makes you wonder if all emails are being received or sent properly. This of course can't be checked as Apple Mail has no proper means of notification that emails have been received (unlike Microsoft Outlook).

i Have no solutions to this. It doesn't happen on an old windows vista based laptop I have, or on a Linux based laptop. It does happen in both my iPad and my iMac.

MAybe I should go back to Windows!!

forgot to mention my iPad is running iOS 9.3.2 and my iMac OSX ElCapitan 10.3... (I think).

I struggle with setting up a GMail account on my iPhone 5 with up to date software and got no where.

Online advice without fail was Settings>Mail>Add account>other and fill in the blanks. One page I looked at had super screenshots as well. Still got the same message imap.gmail.com not responding even though I have an Gmail account.

Well being stupid I used logic. It is after all a Gmail account I want access to so why not just ignore all the advice about using other and use Google. When I was asked for the email address I put it in. When I was asked for the PW I put it in. Voila! Connected and Gmail is now on my phone and set as the default.

Who da thunk it!

Even I also have the same problem in ios 10.3.2 please suggest me how to resolve it.

thanks in advance