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Updating outgoing email password

How to add outgoing email password to existing email account on new iphone 12 or iPad. My account info transferred from my old device & I was able to update the incoming email PW. But my outgoing email is failing due to PW and I cannot find anywhere to enter an outgoing PW.

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 2:32 PM

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Posted on Oct 26, 2020 3:34 PM

purple_user wrote:

How to add outgoing email password to existing email account on new iphone 12 or iPad. My account info transferred from my old device & I was able to update the incoming email PW. But my outgoing email is failing due to PW and I cannot find anywhere to enter an outgoing PW.

IF you go to settings - mail - account - said email account - maybe in advance if you don't see a place to edit the password, then you can delete the account and re-add it.

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Oct 26, 2020 3:34 PM in response to purple_user

purple_user wrote:

How to add outgoing email password to existing email account on new iphone 12 or iPad. My account info transferred from my old device & I was able to update the incoming email PW. But my outgoing email is failing due to PW and I cannot find anywhere to enter an outgoing PW.

IF you go to settings - mail - account - said email account - maybe in advance if you don't see a place to edit the password, then you can delete the account and re-add it.

Updating outgoing email password

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