Pop3 mail server error

For some reason whenever I launch the Mail App, on my MSN account it tells me "*Cannot Get Mail, the connection to the server "pop3.live.com" failed.* "
Do I need to change the settings or delete the account and then add it back again? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Go into the mail account settings and make sure the POP and SMTP server names and passwords are entered correctly. You shouldn't have to delete the accounts, but if all else fails, delete and re-enter them.

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Error occurred with the POP3 mail server

When I first launch my email icon the following error pops up: An error occurred with the POP3 mail server. Mail server mail.midland-webhosting.com responded
What can I do so that I can access my email? Thanks!

Ok I will write lots and lots.
The mail server responded what is that question. You posted what looks like half the error message. So like you I do not understand. Those message have a second half that explains what the problem is.

Alerta An error occurred with the pop3 mail server. Mail server responded;

Boa tarde, ao receber email´s aparece a mensagem:
Alerta An error occurred with the pop3 mail server. Mail server responded;
Não utilizo gmail nem yahoo, outros usuários recebem normalmente os emails.
PAra enviar está normal sem problemas.
Obrigado.

Isto significa que o servidor requer uma autenticação segura e você não especificou, vá em '''Ferramentas''' >> '''Configurar contas...''' na sessão '''Servidor''' especifique um modo de autenticação e faça o teste novamente.

Exception when fetch message from pop3 mail server

below exception occur whenever i fetched message from pop3 mail server. Its occur for perticular message. so i catched javax.mail.MessagingException but this is not working and rest of the messages skips.
plz help me , its urgent.
javax.mail.MessagingException: error loading POP3 headers;
nested exception is:
        java.io.IOException: Unexpected response: ------=_NextPart_000_01B9_01C8
A1AB.148BE090
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Message.loadHeaders(POP3Message.java:467)
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Message.getHeader(POP3Message.java:275)
        at javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage.getSubject(MimeMessage.java:717)
        at fetch1.<init>(fetch1.java:92)
        at fetch1.main(fetch1.java:185)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unexpected response: ------=_NextPart_000_01B9_0
1C8A1AB.148BE090
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.Protocol.simpleCommand(Protocol.java:361)
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.Protocol.multilineCommand(Protocol.java:373)
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.Protocol.top(Protocol.java:271)
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Message.loadHeaders(POP3Message.java:451)
        ... 4 more
Press any key to continue...Code :-
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.Flags.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import javax.activation.*;
public class fetch3
     fetch3()
          try
               // Setup properties
               Properties props = System.getProperties();
               props.put("mail.pop3.host","myMailserver ip");
               // Setup authentication, get session
               Authenticator auth = new PopupAuthenticator();
               Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, auth);
               // Get the store
               Store store = session.getStore("pop3");
               store.connect();
               // Get folder
               Folder folder = store.getFolder("INBOX");
               folder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
               Flags flag = folder.getPermanentFlags();
               // Get directory
               Message message[] = folder.getMessages();
               // Display from (only first) and subject of messages
               for (int i=0, n=message.length; i<n; i++)
               System.out.println ("------------------------------------------------------");
                    System.out.println(" From     : "+message.getFrom()[0]);
                    System.out.println(" To : "+message[i].getAllRecipients()[0]+" "+message[i].getAllRecipients().length);
                    System.out.println(" Replyto : "+message[i].getReplyTo()[0]);
                    System.out.println(" Subject : "+message[i].getSubject());
                    System.out.println ("type "+message[i].getContent());
                    Part messagePart=message[i];
                    Object content=messagePart.getContent();
                    // -- or its first body part if it is a multipart message --
                    if (content instanceof Multipart)
                         messagePart=((Multipart)content).getBodyPart(0);
                    //     System.out.println("[ Multipart Message ]");
                    // -- Get the content type --
                    String contentType=messagePart.getContentType();
                    // -- If the content is plain text, we can print it --
                    System.out.println("CONTENT:"+contentType);
                    if (contentType.startsWith("text/plain") || contentType.startsWith("text/html") || contentType.startsWith("multipart/alternative"))
                         InputStream is = messagePart.getInputStream();
                         BufferedReader reader
                         =new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
                         String thisLine=reader.readLine();
                         while (thisLine!=null)
                              System.out.println(thisLine);
                              thisLine=reader.readLine();
                    System.out.println ("------------------------------------------------------");
               // Close connection
               folder.close(false);
               store.close();
          catch(Exception e)
               e.printStackTrace();
     public static void main(String s[])
          new fetch3();
Regards
Sagar
Edited by: sagar_birari on 23 Apr, 2008 1:18 PM
Edited by: sagar_birari on 23 Apr, 2008 4:30 PM

it shows below output
C:\>java -Dmail.debug=true fetch1
DEBUG: JavaMail version 1.4ea
DEBUG: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\lib\java
mail.providers (The system cannot find the file specified)
DEBUG: !anyLoaded
DEBUG: not loading resource: /META-INF/javamail.providers
DEBUG: successfully loaded resource: /META-INF/javamail.default.providers
DEBUG: Tables of loaded providers
DEBUG: Providers Listed By Class Name: {com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport=javax
.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtps,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport,Sun Microsyste
ms, Inc], com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport=javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com
.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc], com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLSt
ore=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,imaps,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLStore,Sun Microsyst
ems, Inc], com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3s,com.su
n.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore=jav
ax.mail.Provider[STORE,imap,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc],
com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3,com.sun.mail.pop3.POP
3Store,Sun Microsystems, Inc]}
DEBUG: Providers Listed By Protocol: {imaps=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,imaps,com.
sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], imap=javax.mail.Provider[STOR
E,imap,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], smtps=javax.mail.Prov
ider[TRANSPORT,smtps,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc],
pop3=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3,com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store,Sun Microsystems
, Inc], pop3s=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3s,com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore,Sun
Microsystems, Inc], smtp=javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com.sun.mail.smtp.S
MTPTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc]}
DEBUG: successfully loaded resource: /META-INF/javamail.default.address.map
DEBUG: !anyLoaded
DEBUG: not loading resource: /META-INF/javamail.address.map
DEBUG: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\lib\java
mail.address.map (The system cannot find the file specified)
DEBUG: getProvider() returning javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3,com.sun.mail.pop3.
POP3Store,Sun Microsystems, Inc]
DEBUG POP3: connecting to host "pop3_server_ip", port 110, isSSL false
S: +OK Hello there.
C: USER [email protected]
S: +OK Password required.
C: PASS mypass
S: +OK logged in.
DEBUG: setDebug: JavaMail version 1.4ea
C: STAT
S: +OK 16 143077
C: NOOP
S: +OK Yup.Edited by: sagar_birari on 24 Apr, 2008 1:16 PM
Edited by: sagar_birari on 24 Apr, 2008 1:18 PM

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i am trying to do this zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance thing where i go through all my umpteen accounts on my desktop and laptop and check all the umpteen settings to try and troubleshoot an outgoing mail server / "offline" errors in mac mail. this seems like it is isolated to mac mail it would be REALLY NICE if there was some organization in here (or at least an explanation) so that all the possible settings (and all the various locations for them) didn't mean this effort is like 35 factorial with respect to possible mistakes that can be made.
/anyway/ i am reading various threads and my ISP service provider recommends port 143 for IMAP but i am seeing threads responses that highly suggest using SSL. however, if i change the checkbox next to the 143 port entry to have SSL checked this automatically changes the port to 993.
now i am not sure whether to replace the 993 with 143 as suggested or to leave off the setting for SSL.
any suggestions so i can isolate this setting from the thousands of variables that could be the cause of this (orther than it being basically embedded in the software and impossible to fix for one reason or another)?
it will be a real pain to change this setting (3 separate steps) on 15 different accounts (45 steps) on two different computers (90 steps for this one single variable) and then have to change it back again.
THANKS

Windows Mail server error 501

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Here is a copy of the message.
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POP3 mail server

Hi,
Is there any sample java code which will do the activity of sending/receiving mails from/to POP3 server?
Is it a java method to redirect the mails to any specific directory in unix directory?
regards
venki

Hello Sir,
Sorry, i think i should be knowing the pop3 server host name. its my mistake. i think yahoo mail plus only providing pop3 hostname. its not possible to connect with pop3 yahoo server with normail mail user.
Ok Cool.
I have one more quetion. Is it Java having some APIs (java should be running as background process always) which processing with INBOX folder and check for new mails ,as soon as the new mail arrives, it should be redirected to other personal folder in the mail nox.
Following code is the one which process with mailbox and get all the messages and store into one dir called msg ,and get all the attachement and store them into attach folder.
code]
import com.jscape.inet.pop.*;
import com.jscape.inet.mime.*;
import com.jscape.inet.email.*;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.io.*;
public class Example {
private static File messagesDir = new File("msg");
private static File attachmentsDir = new File("attach");
static BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
// get messages from Pop mailbox
public void getMessages(String hostname, String username, String password)
throws PopException, MimeException, IOException {
// ensure that messages directory is valid
if(!messagesDir.exists()) {
messagesDir.mkdir();
// ensure that attachments directory is valid
if(!attachmentsDir.exists()) {
attachmentsDir.mkdir();
// connect and login
Pop pop = new Pop(hostname,username,password);
pop.connect();
System.out.println("Retrieving messsages....");
// get messages
Enumeration messages = pop.getMessages();
if(!messages.hasMoreElements()) {
System.out.println("No messages found");
// write messages to disk
int msgnum = 0;
while(messages.hasMoreElements()) {
++msgnum;
EmailMessage msg = (EmailMessage)messages.nextElement();
               String s= msg.getSubject();
               File f = new File(messagesDir,"msg" + msgnum + ".txt");
               BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(f) );
               String fromString = "From: "+msg.getFrom();
               out.write(fromString);
               out.newLine();
               String toString = "To: "+msg.getTo();
               out.write(toString);
               out.newLine();
               String dateString = "Sent: "+msg.getDate();
               out.write(dateString);
               out.newLine();
               String msgString =msg.getBody();
               out.write(msgString);
               out.newLine();
               //Not written to the file until enough data accumulates.
               //The data is stored in a buffer until then.
               out.close();
               //Causes any unwritten data to be flushed from
               //the buffer and written to the file.
System.out.println("Retrieved message: " + f.getAbsoluteFile());
// write attachments to disk
int attachnum = 0;
Enumeration attachments = msg.getAttachments();
while(attachments.hasMoreElements()) {
++attachnum;
Attachment attach = (Attachment)attachments.nextElement();
String attachmentFileName = attach.getFilename();
if(attachmentFileName == null) {
attachmentFileName = "attachment" + msgnum + "-" + attachnum;
String fileName = attach.getFilename();
if(fileName == null) {
fileName = System.currentTimeMillis() + ".txt";
File attFile = new File(attachmentsDir,fileName);
FileOutputStream attOut = new FileOutputStream(attFile);
try {
attOut.write(attach.getFileData());
attOut.close();
System.out.println("Retrieved attachment: " + attFile.getAbsoluteFile());
catch(Exception e) {
throw new PopException("unable to decode file attachment");
pop.disconnect();
public static void main(String[] args) {
String hostname;
String username;
String password;
try {
System.out.print("Enter Pop3 hostname (e.g. pop.yahoo.com): ");
hostname = reader.readLine();
System.out.print("Enter Pop3 Username: ");
username = reader.readLine();
System.out.print("Enter Pop3 Password: ");
password = reader.readLine();
Example example = new Example();
example.getMessages(hostname,username,password);
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
The above has not checking the new mail messages arriaval, it just retrieve all the messages every time. what i really need is run the java program in background live and check for new mails ,if it comes it should be save the msg/attach in the dirs and move the mails into one folder under the inbox.
Waiting for your valuable reply!
regards
venki[

Mail Server Error

Hello,
I have checked to activate SMTP in Server Manager.
Ben when I want to add : enable inbound email, it takes a lot of time to save, the checkbox uncheckes itself, and in the system.log, I have this error :
May 27 20:45:13 tmachinix servermgrd[13357]: Exception in doCommand for module servermgr_mail: *** -[NSCFString appendString:]: nil argument
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(END)
And if I want to use the assistant to configure the email module, I get this error :
« NIL_RESPONSE_ERR (*** -[NSCFString appendString:]: nil argument) » during « writeSettings »
Please, help me.

Hello arnobeck, I would start with the basics, can you receive emails?
Everything bellow refers to settings under the mail service.
Are your Domain and Host names set to what you want? - General tab
Make sure Kerberos or CRAM-MD5 are checked. - Advanced tab
Check you have certificates selected for both SMTP SSL: and IMAP and POP SSL:. - Advanced tab
Check the certificates match the domain name set in the General tab. - Advanced tab
P.S. I'm not the most advanced with mail server service, but hopefully I can help.
Regards,
Graham

Mail Server Error: imtpunix[302]: DBERROR: critical database situation

This error shows up in the Mail Access log. Once the error occur mail services stop until the server is restarted. a reboot and a database rebuild takes care of thing, but the error keeps coming back. I haven't been able to find a pattern to when the error occurs although the last two nights it seems to have crapped out just about the time the nightly back ups (retrospect 6.1.126) run ... but that doesn't make sense because the volume containing the os and mail isn't part of the nightly backup.
In addition to serving as a mail server, this machine is hosting a small (extremely low volume website and shareing files for 7 users). Installation and file locations is all standard locations.
osx server 10.4.10 All latest server upgrades and security patches have been installed. disk permissions have been verified. disk space is >50% available.
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Sounds like OSX Server?
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Hi,
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The server logs are telling me [DateTime domain.com] log[21055]:auth: Error: od (username, ip address): authentication failed for user=me, method=DIGEST-MD5
From a client (MS offlook) point of view I'm getting :
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject:    test
      Sent: 06/08/2012 19:09
The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
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            451 4.3.5 <unknown[ip address]>: Client host rejected: Server configuration error
This used to work quite well with Lion and the Server Admin Tools.
Is there anything I can try?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff.

Thanks for getting back to me red shift, everything is now up and working again.
I think it was somthing to do with some folder permissions and some mail settings. The mail server GUI supplied with Mountain Lion is all but useless and didn't help in any way in tracking down or resolving the problem. So, I've taken the plunge and set up MailServ for Mountain lion, its a much better mail server GUI client, and seemed to correct some of my postfix settings.
I've tinkered a bit with command line mail stuff, but not quite at a level where I can fully administer it.
Are there any good command line resources out there? This is somthing I need to improve on.
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UTL_SMTP: can't connect to remote mail server (error: 421)

I'm trying to execute this command as SYS:
exec MYSCHEMA.send_mail_via_utl_smtp('[email protected]', '[email protected]', 'my subject', 'my message','mail.mydomain.com');
and I get this error:
Error starting at line 8 in command:
exec MYSCHEMA.send_mail_via_utl_smtp('[email protected]', '[email protected]', 'my subject', 'my message','mail.mydomain.com');
Error report:
ORA-29278: SMTP transient error: 421 Service not available
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_SMTP", line 29
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_SMTP", line 108
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_SMTP", line 150
ORA-06512: at "MYSCHEMA.SEND_MAIL_VIA_UTL_SMTP", line 17
ORA-06512: at line 1
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However, I can telnet successfully as root user to mail.mydomain.com. The stored procedure is:
create or replace
PROCEDURE send_mail_via_utl_smtp(
sender IN VARCHAR2,
recipient IN VARCHAR2,
subject IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL,
message IN VARCHAR2,
mailhost IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'mailhost'
AS
mail_conn UTL_SMTP.connection;
crlf CONSTANT VARCHAR2(2) := CHR(13) || CHR(10);
smtp_tcpip_port CONSTANT PLS_INTEGER := 25;
BEGIN
mail_conn := UTL_SMTP.OPEN_CONNECTION(mailhost, smtp_tcpip_port);
UTL_SMTP.HELO(mail_conn, mailhost);
UTL_SMTP.MAIL(mail_conn, sender);
UTL_SMTP.RCPT(mail_conn, recipient);
UTL_SMTP.DATA(mail_conn, SUBSTR(
'Date: ' || TO_CHAR(SYSTIMESTAMP, 'Dy, dd Mon YYYY HH24:MI:SS TZHTZM') || crlf
|| 'From: ' || sender || crlf
|| 'Subject: ' || subject || crlf
|| 'To: ' || recipient || crlf
|| message,
1, 32767));
UTL_SMTP.QUIT(mail_conn);
END send_mail_via_utl_smtp;
Note that mail.mydomain.com is sitting on the application server, and not the database server (not sure if that is important here). Previously, I set things up doing the following as SYS user:
# cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin
# sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL> @utlmail.sql;
Package created.
Synonym created.
SQL> @prvtmail.plb;
Package created.
Package body created.
Grant succeeded.
Package body created.
No errors.
SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET smtp_out_server = "mail.mydomain.com" SCOPE=MEMORY;
System altered.
SQL> show parameter smtp_out_server
NAME TYPE VALUE
============
smtp_out_server string mail.mydomain.com
SQL> exec DBMS_NETWORK_ACL_ADMIN.CREATE_ACL('my_acl_email.xml','for my db acl to send email', 'MYSCHEMA', TRUE, 'connect');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> exec DBMS_NETWORK_ACL_ADMIN.ASSIGN_ACL('my_acl_email.xml','mail.mydomain.com', 25, NULL);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
It appears that the SYS user is permitted by the ACL, but is somehow blocked access to mail.mydomain.com on the application server. Are there any Linux configurations that need to occur in implementing this process? Or, am I missing something in configuring Oracle. I'm using 11.2.0.1.0. This is my first time setting this up. Does the database need to be cycled down then back up for any of these settings to take place?
Edited by: tem on Apr 20, 2012 2:45 PM

Thanks Justin, that helps a lot. Now, with the 'AUTH LOGIN' command, I'm getting the error:
ORA-29279: SMTP permanent error: 503 AUTH command used when not advertised
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_SMTP", line 29
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_SMTP", line 110
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_SMTP", line 170
ORA-06512: at "JCLOCKGEN.SEND_MAIL_VIA_UTL_SMTP", line 22
ORA-06512: at line 1
29279. 00000 - "SMTP permanent error: %s"
*Cause:    A SMTP permanent error occurred.
*Action:   Correct the error and retry the SMTP operation.
UPDATE:
Actually, my procedure above uses this line:
UTL_SMTP.HELO(mail_conn, mailhost);
But I noticed Justin's code above uses:
UTL_SMTP.EHLO(mail_conn, mailhost);
When I change the HELO to EHLO, everything works fine. Here's the final code:
create or replace
PROCEDURE send_mail_via_utl_smtp(
sender IN VARCHAR2,
recipient IN VARCHAR2,
subject IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL,
message IN VARCHAR2,
mailhost IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'mailhost',
auth_username IN VARCHAR2,
auth_password IN VARCHAR2
AS
mail_conn UTL_SMTP.connection;
crlf CONSTANT VARCHAR2(2) := CHR(13) || CHR(10);
smtp_tcpip_port CONSTANT PLS_INTEGER := 25;
BEGIN
mail_conn := UTL_SMTP.OPEN_CONNECTION(mailhost, smtp_tcpip_port);
UTL_SMTP.EHLO(mail_conn, mailhost);
--------------BEGIN AUTHENTICATION--------------
UTL_SMTP.command(mail_conn, 'AUTH LOGIN');
utl_smtp.command(mail_conn, utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2(utl_encode.base64_encode( utl_raw.cast_to_raw(auth_username))));
utl_smtp.command(mail_conn, utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2(utl_encode.base64_encode( utl_raw.cast_to_raw(auth_password))));
--------------END AUTHENTICATION--------------
UTL_SMTP.MAIL(mail_conn, sender);
UTL_SMTP.RCPT(mail_conn, recipient);
UTL_SMTP.DATA(mail_conn, SUBSTR(
'Date: ' || TO_CHAR(SYSTIMESTAMP, 'Dy, dd Mon YYYY HH24:MI:SS TZHTZM') || crlf
|| 'From: ' || sender || crlf
|| 'Subject: ' || subject || crlf
|| 'To: ' || recipient || crlf
|| message,
1, 32767));
UTL_SMTP.QUIT(mail_conn);
END send_mail_via_utl_smtp;
Edited by: tem on Apr 20, 2012 5:55 PM

Is this a Mail Server Error?

I'm trying to remove all errors, that are logged every five minutes.
Some I found in the discussions and removed them.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4207019?start=15&tstart=0
This was helpfull. But some errors left.
Jan 26 10:21:18 server com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.collabd.expire[1577]): Exited with code: 1
Jan 26 10:21:18 server.mydomain.com sandboxd[1581] ([1578]): collabpp(1578) deny file-read-data /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/lib/libpq.5.5.dylib
Jan 26 10:21:18 server kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(1581) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
Jan 26 10:21:21 server.mydomain.com collabd[154]: [CSContentService:47 411c000 +11ms] Detected Magic Superuser Auth Token
I don't know what it is. Can someone help?

Just a suggestion, but wouldn't it be better to add this as continuation to the previous thread instead of starting a new thread.....? The previous solution poster may have more insight into this.

Exchange synchronises all folders but Inbox error Cannot Get Mail Server Error!

Initially I lost the inbox of my IPad running IOS 5 with my iPhone 4GS continuing to sync with my Exchange Server 2007 however changing mail setting on my phone has now stopped that working as well and I now have lost access to remote mail altogether.
I can still send mails from my Ipad and Iphone though if I send to myself they do not appear in the inbox but do appear in the Sent items.
If I delete mails they appear in deleted items
I have upgraded my IPad 3 to IOS 6 which has not changed anything. I have also tried an IPad 2 and that does not like my mailbox either. Tonight I created a new user on the server and sent mail to that mailbox. I set the settings on the IPad and the Inbox and other folders worked with no issues.
This problem started 2 weeks ago and before that I have never had problems with IOS devices syncing mail from my Exchange 2007 server.
My wife has a IPad 2 that links to the same Exchange Server and she has experienced none of these problems.
Any pointers on this would be most appreciated.
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