Mail.app on i(Pad)OS doesn’t warn users of broken accounts?

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Anyone ever seen a wonderful issue where you have an incorrect password entered in to one of your mail accounts, and yet when you’re running Mail.app it shows absolutely no messages about one of your accounts being “broken”.

My Mom was trying to figure out why she wasn’t receiving emails on her iPad, but she was on her iPhone. Eventually, after a ton of digging, I went to the Settings->Mail->Accounts and discovered that one of her accounts passwords was “incorrect”.

Why in the world does Mail.app not make it obvious that an entire account is currently not receiving email because it’s password is incorrect? That seems like such an obvious and basic feature for an OS and App that are supposed to be all about user “ease of use”.

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