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The iPad can’t send your mail


 

Sometimes, your iPad will receive mail fine, but it won’t send mail. This is a different kind of problem that involves the SMTP – or outgoing Mail server. To try to fix this issue, do the following:

  1. Touch the Mail, Contacts, Calendars tab as you did above.
  2. Touch the Account that is having trouble sending mail.
  3. Touch the tab that says SMTP under Outgoing Mail Server.
  4. Make sure that the primary mail server associated with the email account in question is turned On
  5. If it is turned Off, touch the tab that says Off and turn the switch to On.
  6. If there are other mail servers listed, you can always try to turn one of them On and retry sending your mail. Usually, if mail is unsuccessful in sending from one server, it tries the other listed servers.
  7. If the serer is On and you still have trouble, touch the Primary Server listed and see if in the greyed out field you can see that there is a Host Name, User Name and Password listed. We will show you how to adjust these in the next section.

 

If you have verified that your account is set up and your SMTP server is On and you still can’t send mail – then we need to dive into the Advanced settings to see if there are any more adjustments to be made.

  1. Touch the Account from the Mail, Contacts, Calendars tab as you did earlier.
  2. Touch the Account tab and then touch the Advanced tab under the SMTP tab.
  3. If the Use SSL switch is OFF, turn it ON
    1. Consequently, if it is ON, try turning it OFF
    2. Touch the Authentication tab and set it to Password
    3. Look at the number next to Server Port
      1. For Gmail, this is usually set to 993
      2. Regular IMAP is 143
      3. For Comcast and other POP email accounts, this is often set to 110
      4. Other servers use 995 or 587 – this is your OUTGOING Server.
      5. For iCloud accounts, you won’t even see this listed.
      6. Make sure that the S/MIME switch is set to OFF. This is for Secure/Multi-Purpose Internet Mail extensions used by government agencies and some high tech companies. Chances are, that if you need this to be ON you know what it is and that you need it – most of us don’t.

 

Once you make changes to your settings, touch the Done button and you should be all set to go. Go back to your Mail app and try to fetch your email and then try to send a new one. Hopefully, you will be fixed and working.

If you still have trouble sending or receiving email, it is possible that either the port settings or one of the other advanced settings needs to be adjusted according to the settings for your ISP.

POP3/IMAP Account Server Type Incoming Server Incoming Port Use secure server Verify Certificate Outgoing Server Outgoing Port Use secure server Verify Certificate
Aim.com IMAP4 imap.aim.com 993 (or 143) Yes Yes smtp.aim.com 465 (or 587) Yes Yes
aol.com IMAP4 imap.aol.com 993 (or 143) Yes Yes smtp.aol.com 465 (or 587) Yes Yes
Aim.com POP3 pop.aim.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.aim.com 587 Yes Yes
aol.com POP3 pop.aol.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.aol.com 587 Yes Yes
att.net POP3 pop.att.yahoo.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.att.yahoo.com 465 Yes Yes
bellsouth.net POP3 pop.att.yahoo.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.att.yahoo.com 465 Yes Yes
charter.net IMAP4 mobile.charter.net 993 No No mobile.charter.net 587 No No
charter.net POP3 mail.charterinternet.com 110 No No smtp.charterinternet.com 25 No No
comcast.net POP3 mail.comcast.net 995 (or 110) No No smtp.comcast.net 587 No No
cox.net POP3 varies by location 995 (or 110) Yes Yes varies by location 587 (or 465) No No
earthlink.net POP3 pop.earthlink.net 110 No No smtpauth.earthlink.net 587 (or 25) No No
excite.com POP3 pop3.excite.com 110 No Yes smtp.excite.com 25 No Yes
flash.net POP3 pop.att.yahoo.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.att.yahoo.com 465 Yes Yes
gmail IMAP4 imap.gmail.com 993 Yes Yes smtp.gmail.com 465 Yes Yes
Go Daddy Accounts POP3 pop.secureserver.net 995 (or 110 w/out Secure connection) Yes Yes smtpout.secureserver.net 465 (or 25 w/out Secure connection) Yes Yes
hotmail POP3 pop3.live.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.live.com 587 No Yes
lycos.com POP3 pop.mail.lycos.com 110 No Yes smtp.mail.lycos.com 25 No Yes
mac IMAP4 mail.mac.com 993 Yes Yes smtp.mac.com 25 No No
me IMAP4 mail.me.com 993 Yes Yes smtp.me.com 25 No Yes
mindspring POP3 pop.mindspring.com 110 No No smtpauth.earthlink.net 587 (or 25) No No
msn.com POP3 pop3.live.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.live.com 587 No Yes
netzero.net POP3 pop.netzero.com 110 No Yes smtpauth.netzero.com 587 No Yes
optonline POP3 mail.optonline.net 110 No No mail.optonline.net 587 No No
pacbell.net POP3 pop.att.yahoo.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.att.yahoo.com 465 Yes Yes
Roadrunner POP3 varies by location 110 No No varies by location 587 (or 25) No No
sbcglobal.net POP3 pop.att.yahoo.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.att.yahoo.com 465 Yes Yes
snet.net POP3 pop.att.yahoo.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.att.yahoo.com 465 Yes Yes
swbell.net POP3 pop.att.yahoo.com 995 Yes Yes smtp.att.yahoo.com 465 Yes Yes
verizon.net POP3 incoming.verizon.net 110 No Yes outgoing.verizon.net 25 No Yes
windstream.net POP3 pop.windstream.net 110 No No smtp.windstream.net 587 Yes Yes
yahoo.com IMAP4 imap.mail.yahoo.com 143 No No smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com 587 No Yes

Source: Motorola Global

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