IPhone 6 suddenly can't receive email

For some reason the phone suddenly is not recognizing my AOL email account. It is one of 4 accounts I have on the phone but the only one having an issue. I kept getting an error message saying my password was incorrect whenever I tried to update the mailbox. I have gone into Settings to re-enter the password with no success, I have turned the phone on and off, and I even deleted the account so I could re-add it. Now it won't let me add the account at all because it still thinks the something is incorrect.  I get the following error message: Cannot Get Mail - The user name or password for "imap.aol.com" is incorrect. Nothing is incorrect!
This used to happen randomly on my iPhone 4, but it was usually my iCloud email on that phone. Is this a common thing? So frustrating. I have not yet done the 8.1.3 update, but I am assuming that has nothing to do with it.

kitobear wrote:
For some reason the phone suddenly is not recognizing my AOL email account. It is one of 4 accounts I have on the phone but the only one having an issue. I kept getting an error message saying my password was incorrect whenever I tried to update the mailbox. I have gone into Settings to re-enter the password with no success, I have turned the phone on and off, and I even deleted the account so I could re-add it. Now it won't let me add the account at all because it still thinks the something is incorrect.  I get the following error message: Cannot Get Mail - The user name or password for "imap.aol.com" is incorrect. Nothing is incorrect!
This used to happen randomly on my iPhone 4, but it was usually my iCloud email on that phone. Is this a common thing? So frustrating. I have not yet done the 8.1.3 update, but I am assuming that has nothing to do with it.
Does your account & password work on the AOL website?

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