Suddenly iPad can't connect to email account
This is the second time in a year this has happened. My iPad suddenly cannot connect to my email server. It claims the password is wrong but it isn't (my Mac Mail can connect and my iphone can connect). I went ahead and re-entered the password on the ipad just in case but it still gives the same error. I also tried disabling and re-enabling the account that didn't work either.
The last time this happened the only way I was able to fix it was to delete the email account completely and recreate it. That's very painful because it means the iPad has to resync that email account and it has 10's of thousands of messages.
Does anyone know of another way to get email to this account working again short of the above?
I'm 100% postive the account settings were not change on either end, like I said my Macs and iphone and old ipad2 can still fetch/send mail on that acount just fine.
I forgot to say I also did a ''reset network settings'' on the ipad to see if that would have any effect but that did nothing either.
All these machines are on my same home network so it can't be a firewall issue
BTW, I was at Apple for 21 years, 1987-2008, in SW development writing the OS X Kernel so I am pretty familiar with all this stuff . However, this sudden inability of ios Mail to connect to one of my accounts (there are 4 email accounts in my ios Mail app and only one has this issue) is a little out of my normal area of expertise.
I seem to recall that the last time this happened and I told some people someone said I could have done "X" to get it working again instead of deleting and re-creating the entire email account but of course I can't remember what that was.
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