Apple IOS 18 and Apple IpadOS 18 MailBug

If you are thinking of upgrading to IOS 18, you may want to hold off as there is a bug in the mail application.  You may be able to work around this by adding just a ‘/’ for the mail path and you mail not.

If you have already upgraded to IOS 18, you can use webmail on our website (under web apps) to access e-mail IF the ‘/’ fix does not work for you.  Here are the contents of a ticket sans user info:

The mail app on my iPhone and iPad stopped working a few days ago.

My subscription expires on 10/5, so I need to know if this is a fixable problem.

I reloaded the app several times with all the correct info (below). It returns the following error messages:

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Account Error: Eskimo.

Cannot Get Mail The mail server "mail.eskimo.com" is not responding. Verify that you have
entered the correct account info in Mail settings.

Server message "Mailbox doesn't exist: mboxes/buy/ebay/guns/s&wjframegrips"'

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I checked and the referenced file does exist. I also reloaded the app several times with all the correct info:

Incoming mail server
Host name: mail.eskimo.com

Outgoing mail server
SMTP - mail.eskimo.com
Primary server - mail.eskimo.com
Host name - mail.eskimo.com
Use SSL - On
Authentication - Password
Server port - 465

Robert Dinse posted

It turns out this is a bug introduced into IOS and IpadOS 18 mail app.  One user has found that by adding a / to the path (initially a null path) it made it work for them.

The entire thread is here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255760038?sortBy=rank

Please keep me updated if status changes, and/or if this work around works for you.