If I check POP email w/iPhone, it no longer works on desktop.

[somecows]

Hi everyone,

I just got my iphone and am having a problem getting email to work. I have 3 standard POP accounts each hosted on a different server. 2 of them are working fine, but 1 is behaving strangely. After I synced the iPhone for the first time, all of a sudden my copy of Mail on my MBP starts giving me an error message that the password for the email account is not being accepted. I keep putting the password in, and keep getting a message that it is wrong. I can't tell if the account is working on my iPhone or not, I think maybe not because no mail is showing up there either. The only way I can get it fixed is by deleting the entire email account off of my server and then setting it up again. But then once I re-sync the iPhone, it stops working again. It's really weird.

Has anyone had this happen? I'm totally confused.

Thanks

 

[tritip]

lock issue?

Please review the thread on password trouble. I believe it is a mailbox lock issue. I don't know if there's an easy solution.

 

[kmccall]

iPhone Pop Lock Email errors

Try this:
http://yuliamccall.com/wordpress/2007/07/20/iphone-pop-lock-email-error-solutions/

Let me know.

 

[nmatese]

Has anyone figured out a fix for this?

 

[AustinSTI]

I have a similar problem with an @sbcglobal.net account which uses yahoo mail through SBC. I cannot use yahoo cause the login is xxxxxxx@sbcglobal.net

I've since decided I'm sick of 'Error Code 5' as the yahoo mail states and am dumping SBC for Time Warner...

 

[maduarte]

sbcglobal.net email through Yahoo! default settings

You can get your sbcglobal.net account set through the Yahoo! default setting. Instructions at:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5392498

Not sure yet if that fixes the password problem, though. I have the problem in an sbcglobal and a university-provided account.

BTW it appears Firmware update 1.1.1 does not solve this problem.

 

[moogs]

Sorry to be digging up way old threads but has this been fixed yet? When mail gets downloaded to my iPhone, it locks up the mail server and I can't retrieve the mail using outlook. It's failing to log off the server or something.