send/receive email fails after 5.1 upgrade

[cmmillow]

I have an email account using pop/smtp to my own domain. Email is working correctly from my laptop and via webmail. Email to/from my phone doesn't send/receive after the phone upgraded tp 5.1. I've confirmed the email account settings on the phone are the same as the ones used for my laptop and webmail. I looked at deleting this email account on my phone and re-adding it but the phone tells me it will delete all data when I delete the account. I have a number of queued outgoing emails I don't want to lose so I haven't deleted/created the acocunt.

[vzw_customer_support]

cmmillow,

Let's get this working for you, we want to see you able to use your email properly. Is this issue only with your personal domain email? Or do you see it on other "general" email accounts like Gmail and/or yahoo?

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[cmmillow]

Personal email account, I have a gmail account, but it forwards to my personal address.

I can access my airbnb and twitter accounts correctly.

[cmmillow]

It's been almost 24 hours with no reply from Verizon Wireless Customer Support. Will I be receiving another reply to help get this issue resolved?

[SuzyQ]

Try deleting the cache on the email app (application manager --> delete cache)  This will not remove the queued emails).

If that doesn't work, (reboot after you clear the cache) then deleting and re-adding may be the only way to get the email working again.  It will re-sync with your email, so you won't lose any that reside on the email server.  If you have composed emails that are in the "send" queue only on your phone, then you may lose those, yes.  Copy / / paste to another app and redo from the paste after the app is working again??

[MichaelD-WA]

Check the outgoing SMTP port in your e-mail settings.  My e-mail won't sync/send/recieve POP email to my own domain either. Mucho troubleshooting later, I'm finding that I can set the outgoing SMTP port to the needed 80, ports are validated successfully, but as soon as I leave that screen the system sets the port to 587, so the e-mail fails to sync and just sits there spinning.

Reboot, clear cache, delete and add account, nothing to date has fixed this glitch which started late last week (10/16/15)

You can download another email client from the Google Play store, and use that. Worked for me and clearly verified that it's the Verizon software/port and not your ISP/domain/etc. (Thanks to the VZN rep who shared that tip with me).

[cmmillow]

Thanks for the suggestions from other users. Unfortunately nothing has worked (reboot, clear cache, delete and add account).

The other thing that hasn't worked is getting another reply from Customer Support. I felt a slight bit of hope when they replied to my first posting, but then they didn't reply to my question a day later and I am now writing again to ask if they will reply now and help me fix my phone.

Or is Customer Support just going to sit back and ignore this while other users step up? Come Verizon, show me you deserve a bit of respect here.

[Ann154]

Can you be patient? Responses from the VZW reps can't always be immediate. As this is primarily a peer to peer customer forum and sometimes the members can provide better answers based on their own experience.

[vzw_customer_support]

cmmillow Please do not feel we are not concerned about your post, we will definitely help resolve this issue for you. Thank you for trying all the suggestions provided by the community. In my review of the postings I see all suggestions are correct. Can you check the email settings on your computer to make sure they won't delete from the computer if you delete the account from your phone. Once you confirm you can delete the email account from your phone and add it back.
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[cmmillow]

As was pointed out, this is primarily a peer to peer customer forum, so I do appreciate Customer Support responses (really, I do). I'm also a bit jaded after several decades in the tech world as these primarily peer to peer forums, while setup and hosted by the company that received the customers money, generally don't get the level of productive support most customers would like. That's not a slam about Verizon in particular any more than the industry standard practice of using free customer-generated support to solve other customer's issues, which cost the company nothing but the cumulative bad-will of those for whom this model doesn't produce results.

To that end, as I stated in my last reply, I have already tried all the customer generated suggestions and "unfortunately nothing has worked (reboot, clear cache, delete and add account)".

Having already deleted and recreated the email account on my phone, I now have an empty mail screen with an ever-spinning blue circle as it tries to connect to my mail server. I have left the phone sit in this state overnight without receiving any email or the phone correctly connecting with the mail server. What should I try next?