Mail + Yahoo POP

Over the past several weeks I am no longer able to use Mail (ver 2.0.7) with my Yahoo POP account. I use the premium Yahoo service, so I am able to use email clients. In fact everything was working fine for many months. But now I am receiving server timeout errors.
Unfortunately, Yahoo does not support Apple's Mail application, so there is no info on setup on the Yahoo site.
The problem cropped up suddenly, so something must have changed, either on the Yahoo side, or perhaps with my ISP (Comcast).
I've reviewed the earlier threads on the topic, but I don't see that anyone has resolved the issue successfully.
Any suggestions?
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

HI there. I've been trying to follow the discussion at hand regarding trouble sending mail. If I understand it right, your IP is Earthlink and you have a Yahoo biz account so Yahoo handles your incoming mail with their mail server. If that is so, then you do have to use Earthlink's outgoing (smtp) mail server to send messages, regardless of what Yahoo says about it. If you were on Pacbell/SBC/ATT DSL service, it would not be the case, since they partner with Yahoo to provide their service. As a general rule, you have to use the OUTGOING mail server for the network you are using. So, if you travel, for example, and you get a room in a hotel that has broadband available, you have to find out what the IP is and what the SMTP server address is for that IP. Once you setup those settings in Mail, you can send mail from that location. The reason that your mail doesn't get through to Yahoo is that you are out of network. It could really be ANY foreign IP, not just Earthllink. Most of the IPs out there refuse their own users' outgoing mail attempts when they are out of network because of concerns about spammers.
The 'how to send mail from remote locations' issue is a pain. The best solution I've found is a service called authsmtp.com. You use THEIR outgoing server from ANYWHERE and your mail always gets out. VERY cool if you travel. They charge for the convenience, but the cost is minimal.

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LNN,
That is often caused by a POP lock, or more than one mail program trying to access the POP3 mailbox at the same time. For example if you computer and iPhone are checking the mailbox at the same time.
This article has more information:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307009
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This has been going on for 2 days now. Re set up my account in mail but nothing just the ! next to the mailbox. Anyone else having problems?

Sending an email is something totally different again - you can send yourself or anyone else an email to any email address.
You can also send or forward any email while on your Yahoo account to yourself or anyone else.
Setting up Yahoo to automatically forward emails to your home email address is something else. Here is an excerpt from Yahoo Help:
+The ability to access Yahoo! Mail using an email reader program such as Outlook, Eudora, or Thunderbird is only available to customers of our premium Yahoo! Mail Plus service. To determine whether you have purchased this service, please visit the My Services page.+
Although this does not mention Apple Mail, it functions exactly like Outlook, etc. so it will not work. Here is the link to the entire help page:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/mailplus/pop/pop-35.html;_ylt=An EHIP08O6GRC7cEYzjbTbe7myN4
I have no idea why it might have worked for you previously, but according to Yahoo, it cannot be done unless you pay for the service.
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Yahoo POP Mail just stopped working in 10.6.7

I have three Macs, two of which run 10.6.7 and one that runs 10.5.8. They are not networked together. This afternoon we had a storm and my big computer (iMac 27") was unable to retrieve my Yahoo POP mail. It has no problem retrieving mail from a BellSouth account and it can send fine on either account. So I tried the laptop that runs 10.5.8 and it downloads my Yahoo mail fine. I tried my other laptop that runs 10.6.7 and nope, it can't retrieve my Yahoo mail.
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Just curious - has anyone taken this to Yahoo? Not sure if this will get solved by a bunch of us discussing on an Apple board. Yahoo's mode of operation in the past has been deny, deny, deny and then mysteriously, the problem gets solved without ever a mention of root cause and what they did to fix it. My recommendation is to not burn wasted time by deleting accounts in Mac mail and then re-inoutting the settings. This appears to have nothing to do with Mac mail and everything to do with Yahoo POP mail authentification. I can get to Yahoo mail using only my browser since this does not require a handshake between Yahoo servers and my desktop MAC software. Thus, it tells me there is a disconnect and the blame clearly lies with Yahoo since nothing on our MACs have changed and we are all experiencing the same problem. Let's see if they get over their denial and mysteriously fix the problem while we sleep. My bet is that things will work find in the morning and none of us will be credited back the $.50 for being down for a full day. Too bad the Yahoo Mail Plus agreement doesn't come with an SLA.

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Try deleting and readding the account. Yahoo has been having issues for weeks. Sometimes it's them. Sometimes with the iOS6 upgrade you need to reenter account info.
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Hello all. I use Mail to manage my three email accounts via POP - Yahoo, Gmail and work. For the past 72 hours I've been unable to receive Yahoo mail. The outgoing server works fine, but the incoming server fails. Is anyone else having this problem? I've tried all the usual troubleshooting stuff. There is nothing on the Yahoo site to indicate a problem. (This came out of the blue; I've been receiving mail this way sucessfully for years. I didn't make any changes to settings prior to this happening.)

Hi,
I can confirm this is not a Apple issue as I cannot connect to the yahoo POP3 server from my Mac Mail or thunderbird and outlook on my windows PC. Seems to be a yahoo pop server issue. Very annoying and yahoo have been no help whatsoever.
Re: Just fixed it, it seems that the Pop server has been changed to pop.yahoo.mail.com from .co.uk
Hope that helps.

Yahoo pop mail will not send using macmail

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Hello TCRed,
The following article provides useful information and troubleshooting steps that can help get Mail to send your messages.
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3276
Cheers,
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TB stopped receiving emails after one with huge attachment. Updated TB. Can send but not receive. Using Yahoo POP server. Browser access works fine.

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Hello all, I have finally admitted defeat. I have been using Apple Mail to pick up my Yahoo Mail for a long time without any issues. Suddenly it has decided to not send emails...and I have no idea why.
I got the settings off of Yahoo's site. The pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk settings work but it seems that the smtp settings are the ones creating the issues. Currently they are smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk / server port 465 / SSL checked and authenicating with a password. I have used the connection doctor and it says that both incoming and outgoing connections are good.
Anyway, after trawling through the forums on Yahoo and here I have tried deleting all prefs, re-inputting all of the above information. No joy. I have tried changing the port to 587. No joy. I have tried turning off SSL and switching to port 110. No juice.
I have tried the same settings in Entourage but that doesn't work either. So, I am now throwing myself at these boards to see if someone - anyone - has a solution that doesn't require a stamp and an envelope.
Man, I can build and rig straight down the pipe but I can't send an email! Hummph.

Hi
I too am having problems sending email from my Yahoo accounts. I contacted Yahoo support and they sent me this to try.
1. Launch the "Terminal" application located in the "Applications:
Utilities" folder.
2. At the text prompt, type "telnet pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk 110" and press
the "Enter/Return" key. If you're successful, you should now see "+OK
hello from popgate." If you don't see this, close the window and start
over or check your Internet or network connection to make sure you're
logged on.
3. From this screen, type "user xxx" (where xxx is your Yahoo! ID) and
press "Enter/Return." You should be prompted with "+OK password
required."
4. Type "pass yyy" (where yyy is your case-sensitive password) and press
"Enter/Return." If this is successful, you should receive a prompt with
"+OK maildrop ready," followed by mailbox details. If this was not
successful, you'll receive "-ERR Error logging in. Please visit
http://ymailuk.com/."
5. Type "quit" and press "Enter" to sign off the POP server.
6. Type "exit" and press "Enter" to return to Windows.
If you weren't able to get the POP authentication during the first try,
please wait a few minutes and try again. After several tries, you should
be able to tell if your ID and password will allow you to achieve POP
authentication.
Next, check if you are able to communicate with the Yahoo! Mail Plus
SMTP server. Here's how:
1. Launch the "Terminal" application located in the "OS X Applications:
Utilities" folder.
2. At the text prompt, type "telnet smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk 25" and press
the "Enter/Return" key. If the port is not blocked, you should receive a
response similar to "220 smtpxxx.mail.yahoo.co.uk ESMTP" (where "xxx" is
the server number you connected to). If you don't receive this specific
response or if you get a different response, your ISP, networking
equipment, or security software may be blocking or scanning outgoing
mail servers.
NOTE: Please also try port 587 in place of 25. It's important that you
try the alternate port, as some ISPs will block port 25 by default.
Though it does mention Mail Plus in the instructions and I don't have MailPlus I was able to connect using port 587 to the SMTP Server.

Probleme avec les mails Yahoo

J'ai ce message d'erreur.
Comment le résoudre?
Il existe peut-être un problème avec le serveur de courrier ou le réseau. Vérifiez les réglages du compte « Yahoo » ou réessayez.
Erreur détectée par le serveur : Mail n’a pas pu se connecter au serveur « pop.mail.yahoo.fr » via SSL sur le port 995. Vérifiez que ce serveur gère SSL et que vos réglages de compte sont corrects.

Bonjour
Les paramêtres dans MAIL sont normalement
Serveur POP : pop.mail.yahoo.fr (sur le port 995)
Serveur SMTP ( pour l'envoi de mail ) : smtp.mail.yahoo.com (sur le port 25, 465, 587 ). Cocher SSL et authentification mot de passe avec votre compte Yahoo.
Si vous optez pour une connexion IMAP : port 993 avec SSL et authentification par mot de passe yahoo
Enfin, voici la page d'aide dédiée de Yahoo
http://help.yahoo.com/l/fr/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/pop/pop-114.html;_ylt=AhTWmKWp8j eo264LKEQnJheFyiN4
En espérant que cela vous aide
bonne soirée

Converting my Mail from POP to IMAP

I am considering converting my ISP email account in Apple Mail from POP to IMAP. I had never given this much (any) thought until I recently got an iPhone and noticed that the email account that it setup for my ISP email (Charter) was an IMAP one. This has created a little bit of a conflict and has sometimes resulted in my inbox or get mail on my desktop Apple Mail being "locked up" for a while when I have just previously read the mail on my iPhone. (I get the message on my iMac that my ISP email is currently in use by another mail client). I had never run into this problem before and I've read that it does happen and happens more often when you have both POP and IMAP clients trying to access the same mail server.
One question is do I just go into the accounts settings on Mail on my iMac and change the incoming and outgoing servers to the appropriated IMAP ones? Or should I create a whole new account in Mail and use the IMAP settings from the start? What will happen to the folders and subfolders I already have in my Mail program? Going forward with IMAP, will I be able to download the emails from the server like I have always done and categorize them into folders using Mail?
This is all kind of confusing right now. Thanks.
Steve M.

You're welcome.
Is there any harm in leaving my desktop Mail as is (POP account) and just realizing that I may experience an occasional "lock out"?
There is no harm with doing so, but I'm not sure why you would want to.
How do I release the email account from my iPhone?
There is no option for this.
I already have my data settings on the iPhone to "fetch" every hour--not to push. But does this apply to the IMAP account on the iPhone?
Push access for received messages applies to an email account that supports Push access. The following email accounts support Push access for received messages:
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Exchange
A Yahoo account created with the Yahoo account preset.
"If" I decided to convert my desktop Mail account to IMAP, could I not just "add" the new account? Would I necessarily have to delete the POP account?
You don't have to delete the POP account, but you would want to make it inactive or disable the account with the Mail app - Mail > Settings > Accounts > Select the Account > Under the Advanced tab for the account settings deselect Enable this account.
If you want access to the locally stored messages in the POP account's Inbox and Sent mailbox with the iPhone's Mail app, you want want to copy the messages to a server stored mailbox or mailboxes after creating the account as an IMAP account.
Can I setup the account as POP on my iPhone and just keep it all POP? Or is this dependent on Charter's policies?
This depends on Charter, but I don't see why you wouldn't be able to access the account as a POP account with the iPhone's Mail app as well, but this will not get rid of the "locked out" problem on occasion.
A POP account is from the early dark ages of email account access with an email client on a computer when the overwhelming majority at the time had access to a single computer only - before there were laptops and laptops became mainstream, and before there were handheld cell phones much less cell phones in the smart phone category. Until the iPhone, phones in the smart phone category were primarily targeted and sold to the business/enterprise market, not to the consumer market. The iPhone changed all that - just look at all the copies and different phones in the smart phone category that surfaced after the original
Although it is possible to access a POP account with more than one email client, a POP account is designed to be accessed with a single email client only and includes a number of limitations that are not a problem with an IMAP account, which is specifically designed to be accessed with more than one email client.
There is no "locked out" problem with an IMAP account. You can store the account's Drafts, Sent, Trash, and Junk mailboxes on the server with the Mail app on your Mac, and the account's Drafts, Sent, and Trash mailboxes on the server with the iPhone's Mail app. The account's Junk mailbox stored on the server with the Mail app on your Mac will be available automatically when accessing the account with the iPhone's Mail app along with all other server stored mailboxes created for the account with the Mail app on your Mac or via webmail access for the account using a browser. You can transfer received and sent messages to additional server stored mailboxes by category with the Mail app on your Mac and with the iPhone's Mail app which will be reflected automatically with each email client. All server stored mailboxes are kept synchronized with the server automatically with each email client used to access the account. Sent a message with the iPhone's Mail app and the message will be available in the account's Sent mailbox with the Mail app on your Mac automatically and vice-versa. Read a new message with the Mail app on your Mac and the message will be marked as read automatically when accessing the account's Inbox mailbox with the Mail app on your Mac and vice-versa. Transfer a received message to a user created server stored mailbox with iPhone's Mail app and the message will be available in that server stored mailbox automatically when accessing the server stored mailbox with the Mail app on your Mac and vice-versa.
I keep the Mail app on my Mac launched and running 24/7 checking my IMAP account for new messages. I have the account's Junk mailbox stored on the server with the Mail app on my Mac, which is available automatically when accessing the account with the iPhone's Mail app and the same with my iPad 2. Any received message that is marked as junk and moved to the account's Junk mailbox stored on the server with the Mail app on my Mac is reflected automatically with the account's Inbox mailbox and Junk mailbox with the iPhone's Mail app and with the iPad's Mail app. The junk mail filter with the Mail app on my Mac is serving as the junk mail filter for the account with my iPhone and iPad as well - remotely since all server stored mailboxes with an IMAP account are kept synchronized with the server with each email client used to access the account.
NONE of this is available with a POP account.
If you have the option to access your email account as an IMAP account and you access the account with an email client on more than one computer or device, to me it is a no-brainer which way to go - IMAP, which is specially designed for this.

X2-01 Communities , push mail & yahoo probs

hi....
just bought my new X2-01........ 3 days back & m vry happy with the overall Performance ....& great looking phone (i got a white one) cheers to Nokia!! ................
i have a few issues if anyone from Nokia can help me out......
1. mail - i was able to set my gmail account but yahoo is showing (wrong user id or password) error ...same user id & pass is working on my PC without any prob...
2. mail -- Gmail is working but have to click mail icon & go into mail app to look 4 new emails ....push mail not working except for some times (rarely i got a pop message- u've got mail) .....
all my settings are correct for pushmail (time is also set to 6am-11:30 PM)......
3. Chat - can access Gtalk but for yahoo same error as above wrong user id password --same working ok with my PC.......
4. Chat - can accesss Gtalk & can come back to my homescreen, with still login to Gtalk ...but after sometime (30 minutes or so) it automatically signs me off from Gtalk ..........& i couldn't find any option to stay logged in there for a long period ......
5. Communities --- no matter if i choose Facebook or twitter for homescreen widget -- it never refreshes on it's own (time is also set to 6am-11:30 PM) ...even if i hilite this widget & select - options - Refresh ...it doesn't refresh ...........i have to click on it & go into communities to see latest feeds --that is vry slow....................
can someone look into this ASAP plz ?..........
are these above errors BUGS in Nokia X2-01 ??
would they be rectified in next Firmware upgradation ??
will nokia be releasing new Firmware for X2-01 soon ??
thanx
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But from different connection PRovide its wrking
Why so
wats d diff in settings
please tell me
chanchan05 wrote:
1. If you are using free yahoo, you cant get push mail. yahoo can only do push mail if you are using yahooplus
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