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Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
15-09-2014 5:38 PM
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Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
16-09-2014 10:03 AM
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It would also help to try relaying messages through the Internet provider's SMTP servers to see if that helps.
To try and rule out a problem this side, I've tested SMTP authentication against your account using a Vodafone connection (port 25) and I didn't encounter any problems
220 avasout01 smtp relay.plus.net
ehlo avasout
250-avasout01 hello [212.183.132.78], pleased to meet you
250-HELP
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-SIZE 10485760
250-8BITMIME
250 OK
auth login
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
[REDACTED]
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
[REDACTED]
235 ... authentication succeeded
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Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
16-09-2014 11:02 AM
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Bob, is there any other checking e.g IP address for blacklisting etc, prior to checking the smtp credentials ? The reason I ask, is that I've seen occasional problems when on 3g in Portugal , smtp auth seems to fail from time to time. The next time, having disconnected/reconnected and been almost certainly allocated a different IP, it's ok. Having said that, collection of mail is fine and I would assume that any IP checking would apply to POP/IMAP as well...
Quote How are you connected to the Internet? Whilst I recognise that things may have been working, we can't rule out problems with the Internet connection itself. Some providers will intercept traffic across common email ports and it can cause problems when sending etc.
Maybe the next time it happens, I'll try telnet direct to relay.plus.net and see where it fails...
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Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
16-09-2014 11:40 AM
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Next time you have problems, I'd be interested in knowing the IP you're connecting from.
@SJR01, same applies. If you're still having problems then can you find out the IP of your connection and let me know what it is?
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Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
16-09-2014 12:51 PM
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Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
28-10-2014 10:06 PM
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Incoming email has been working fine since I got it about six weeks ago, but since Friday last I have not been able to RECEIVE emails through my Plusnet account - though I can send them OK. When I try and receive, I get the dreaded pop up window "Cannot get mail, The mail server 'imap.plus.net' is not responding..."
I have shut down and restarted the iPhone several times, checked with the Plusnet website that the settings are correct, and deleted the Plusnet email account from the iPhone and then set it up again. No change.
I can pick up Plusnet messages using webmail, but reading and sorting them on the tiny iPhone screen drives me bonkers.
Using my other device, an iPad, both sending and receiving are working just fine.
I also use a hotmail account on the iPhone and that is unaffected; I can both send and receive using that. (Incoming mail on the iPad is not set up as Imap.)
Strangely, one of the posts above mentions Portugal, and I have just spent four days in Portugal, which was - I realise - where this problem with the iPhone started, where I was using the hotel's wifi. ( I did not take the iPad to Portugal, only the iPhone.)
I reside in the UK, but am currently in France for a couple of weeks, where I am using a friend's secured home wifi which I have regularly used before without any problem.
But alas, the incoming mail on the iPhone is still not appearing.
This is hugely frustrating, and I would be very glad of advice on how to resolve it.
Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
29-10-2014 10:15 AM
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Quote from: angelab I can pick up Plusnet messages using webmail, but reading and sorting them on the tiny iPhone screen drives me bonkers.
Using my other device, an iPad, both sending and receiving are working just fine.
Are the iPad and iPhone both with you at the moment? Are they both using the same connection or is the phone using 3G/4G and the iPad using fixed line connectivity? It's peculiar that the POP3 account doesn't exhibit the same problems as the IMAP account.
Quote from: angelab Strangely, one of the posts above mentions Portugal, and I have just spent four days in Portugal, which was - I realise - where this problem with the iPhone started, where I was using the hotel's wifi. ( I did not take the iPad to Portugal, only the iPhone.)
I reside in the UK, but am currently in France for a couple of weeks, where I am using a friend's secured home wifi which I have regularly used before without any problem.
What would be helpful is if you could provide the IP address assigned to both the iPhone (not working) and iPad (working) the next time this happens. You can do that fairly easily by visiting the website herefrom each device. Feel free to PM me the details if you don't want to post them in plain sight.
Quote from: angelab But alas, the incoming mail on the iPhone is still not appearing.
I assume the error is the same and it's the IMAP server that's not responding?
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Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
29-10-2014 11:38 AM
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In answer to your questions:
1.
Yes, the iPad and iPhone are both with me here in France.
They are both using the same connection, wifi from a fixed line in my friend's house.
2.
I am not sure how much info you need from the whatsmyip.org site, but they both look identical at the top of the page:
109.10.131.227
3.
Yes, the same error is occurring today, too. Incoming Plusnet mail OK on iPad. But on iphone am still getting pop up window "Cannot get mail ... imap.plus.net is not responding...."
Angela
Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
29-10-2014 12:17 PM
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iDevices can get their emai account details "confused" and the only answer is to kill the account and reconfigure it.
Also I find that in some locations on 3G though being 3G connected (IP address allocated) there is zero internet connectivity.
Can you be certain that your iPhone is attempting WiFi connectivity and not 3G?
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Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
29-10-2014 12:29 PM
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So, you've already deleted and recreated the IMAP account on the phone?
Can you try creating the IMAP account on the iPad too? You should be able to do this alongside the POP3 account (you can delete it after). I'm just intrigued to know whether or not you experience the same problems. If you don't then the issue has to be related to the iPhone. Perhaps it's caching a negative server response or some bad data from when you were in Portugal?
If you do experience the same problems on the iPad then is there a laptop or computer connected to the same network where you could try tracing/telnetting to the IMAP servers? I'd expect them to respond like this:
C:\Windows\System32>tracert imap.plus.net
Tracing route to imap.plus.net [212.159.9.86]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
2 17 ms 80 ms 30 ms lo0-central10.pcl-ag06.plus.net [195.166.128.187]
3 16 ms 16 ms 19 ms link-a-central10.pcl-gw01.plus.net [212.159.2.180]
4 15 ms 15 ms 72 ms xe-10-3-0.pcl-cr01.plus.net [212.159.0.212]
5 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms po2.pcl-gw01.plus.net [195.166.129.41]
6 22 ms 25 ms 26 ms gi5-8.ptp-cr01.plus.net [84.93.224.48]
7 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms vlan2657.ptp-elb01.plus.net [84.93.224.36]
8 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms imap.plus.net [212.159.9.86]
Trace complete.
C:\Windows\System32>telnet imap.plus.net 143
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT Q
UOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2010 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYIN
G for distribution information.
Also worth triple checking you're *not* using TLS/SSL and that the iPad is configured to connect to the server using port 143 and *not* port 993
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Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
29-10-2014 2:30 PM
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I checked as you suggested that my iPhone was NOT using TLS/SSL, and that it WAS using port 143. All was fine.
Then I thought I would have another go at uninstalling the Plusnet email in Settings. I then shut the iPhone down completely and rebooted from scratch. Then I went through the whole Settings - Mail etc thing again to create the new account.
This time I got all that tiresome "Cannot connect using SSL..." stuff to which you have to reply Yes more than once. And it's working OK!
The difference might be that when I uninstalled the account last time, I perhaps did not shut the iPhone right down afterwards, before setting up the new account. At any rate, last time I did not get the ".... SSL Yes/No" message, but something along the lines of "You already have an account like this." So maybe my first uninstall was not thorough enough.
Thank you so much for your responses on this.
I hope my solution helps someone else!
Angela
Re: Email email stopped working on iPad
29-10-2014 3:05 PM
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