Check Email on iPad locks other devices

Question

When I check email on my iPad 2 (POP3), it causes errors on other devices. For example.  I can go to email on my iPad and it checks all my POP3 accounts (I have 5 or so of them).  If I then go to my Windows laptop and go to Outlook and do a Send/Receive, I get error messages on all my email accounts. The error indicates that "only one can log in at a time". This indicates to me that the iPad logged on to check email, but did not log off.  Our Email server is using MailEnable.  This clears up after a few minutes, but it's very annoying.  Is there a way for me to fix this, or is this an iPad bug?
Jesse

Answer 1

You don't need to do a reset.
When you check your Mail on your iPad it logs in to your accounts. But when you stop using the Mail app on your iPad it doesn't actually quit for a while. So Mail continues to be logged in to your accounts. I see this all the time on my iPad. There are two ways to avoid the issue.
First give the Mail app time to actually close down and log out. Also make sure that you do not have Mail set to periodically Fetch emails. Go to Settings > Mail > Fetch and set it to Fetch Manually.
Second, if you know that you will be using your computer to check for email or you might want to use a webmail site to check for email, close Mail manually. Here's how to do that,
Double click the Home button. This exposes the row of recently used apps at the bottom of the screen. Tap on one of the apps until they all begin to wiggle and display a minus sign. Tap on the minus sign on the Mail app and then tap anywhere above that row of recently used apps to return the screen to normal. You should then be able to log into you Mail account from your computer or via a webmail site.