Multiple mail accounts causes random logon errors

I've been using my iPhone to download mails from GMail for about 8 months now without any problems.
The GMail account is setup to use POP3 (i think... can't check it because the iphone hides some settings... IMAP is blank...)
Then today, i added an Exchange account using my domain account at my workplace.
After about 4 hours i then wanted to check for mails, but then my GMail account complained about wrong password (credentials)
since my latest change was to add the Exchange account, i thought that it was the problem, so i disabled the account without luck.
5 minutes later, i enabled the Exchange account again... and Gmail+Exchange is working
excuse me... but *** !?

this crash has been present since ios6 (apparently). it's apparently caused by a buffer overflow (i've not yet examined the crash files i've been generating) because the engineers never tested use cases such as yours or mine.
a painful workaround is to disable all your email accounts but one, edit its signature, then disable it, and enable the next one, and so on. ios saves the correct signature for each account and the settings app crash does not occur.
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Each family member and regular user of this iMac family computer should have their own computer login account without admin privileges. You can disable automatic login so each user must manually enter their login password to login to their account and gain access to their Home folder/directory including all their own data stored within. Each family member creates their email account only with Mail under their login account.
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