I've got myself in a mess. Hear me out please... Today I wanted to view an email on my ipad mini which I received about 3 weeks ago and it was no longer downloaded, so using the search bar in my mail (I use Hotmail) I entered the sender's name. That's when everything went pear shaped. Since then I have been getting the message 'connection to the server failed'. I used an apple discussion thread relating to this same issue and the advice (which seemed to work for the poster of the same problem) was to delete the mail account in settings and then add it again. I thought that would be straightforward so I did it. since then, naturally all mails on my ipad mini have been deleted and I seem to be unable to successfully re-add my Hotmail account. It can't be hard, I did it when I got the ipad 1.5 years ago..... but I have done something wrong. I tried switching the ipad mini off and on again, didn't help.
now I get the message " the mail server "imap-mail.outlook.com" is not responding. Verify that you have entered the correct account into Mail settings." so apart from having no mail now in ipad, I cannot receive any and I don't know what I have done wrong. I am using my laptop now to send this, and for some reason I am unable to use the same Hotmail account on my laptop either. All is well on my phone, and I know that Hotmail account is not blocked. so as well as the ipad mini mail issue, I now have a Hotmail issue on my laptop! I am able to use my laptop to access another Hotmail account which I use without any problems. when I say Hotmail, the account these days is known as outlook. does anyone know what it going on? can anyone answer me in simple steps please? I am not a tecchie, just a user.
now it is 15 mins later and I am sure my Hotmail is not blocked, I am able to use it on my laptop but I keep getting this message above my mailbox even though I can open mail and create and send mail:
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and I still have the same problem with my ipad....
now I get the message " the mail server "imap-mail.outlook.com" is not responding. Verify that you have entered the correct account into Mail settings." so apart from having no mail now in ipad, I cannot receive any and I don't know what I have done wrong. I am using my laptop now to send this, and for some reason I am unable to use the same Hotmail account on my laptop either. All is well on my phone, and I know that Hotmail account is not blocked. so as well as the ipad mini mail issue, I now have a Hotmail issue on my laptop! I am able to use my laptop to access another Hotmail account which I use without any problems. when I say Hotmail, the account these days is known as outlook. does anyone know what it going on? can anyone answer me in simple steps please? I am not a tecchie, just a user.
now it is 15 mins later and I am sure my Hotmail is not blocked, I am able to use it on my laptop but I keep getting this message above my mailbox even though I can open mail and create and send mail:
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and I still have the same problem with my ipad....
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