How to Get Yahoo Push Mail to Work on the iPhone- Finally

I post this for the benefit of all of you struggling with this same problem and how to resolve it.
I talked to AppleCare this morning and this is what they said that Yahoo push start working- the first thing that has after spending several solid useless days trying every other recommendation on various forums, none of which worked. Here is what they said to do:
1. Restore completely, without having the backup restore onto the iPhone.
2. Delete all of your email accounts on the iphone (I did this first before doing #1 to see if the remainder would work without a restore, but it did not, but when I went back and did #1 first it worked).
3. Re-enter all of your e mail accounts, beginning with the non-yahoo accounts first- very important. Be sure to set up at this time whether you want them manually to check or every 15 minutes for mail, etc., BEFORE you set up or enter the Yahoo account.
4. Then, after the above, enter the Yahoo account.
The support guy told me that for some reason changing how often the send receive occurs (manually, etc.) AFTER first setting up the yahoo account somehow overwrites information for the yahoo account and keeps the push from working. He said he had solved the push for a number of people following the procedure, and I agree, it did work.
Whether it will keep working I am skeptical! Also, I meant to ask, but did not: Does this mean that if I now ever change how often the iPhone checks for mail will it now overwrite the yahoo information and cause the push to stop working again, meaning I have to do the above steps again.
Finally, the push is not instantaneous, but is in about 2 minutes or so, at least from what I have seen- a lot better than every 15 minutes.

Sorry it did not work for you. Call Apple at 800-myiphone- maybe they can help.

Similar Messages

  • Restoring Data from old phone to S III and getting Yahoo E-Mail to work on the Galaxy S III

    I wanted to share some information on how to do a few things on the Galaxy SIII. After spending approximately 6 hours on the phone and On-Line Chat with Verizon Wireless Tech Support they told me the following things could not be done. Well FOR THE RECORD they CAN BE DONE!!!!!
    Here is how to Back-up and Restore your Text, Picture and Video messages from your old phone to your new phone:
    BEFORE you DEACTIVATE the OLD PHONE:
    Make sure you have an External SD card in your old phone that will work in your new phone
    Go to the Play Store and install Verizon Messages
    Open the Verizon Messages program and click on Back-UP – ALL Text, Picture and Video messages will be backed-up. IF YOU GET A “SAVE CANCELLED” MESSAGE:
                         You may have to Back-up LARGE messages (with picture & Video content) individually.
                        You may also have to backup conversation threads 1 at a time if there are a large number of texts in that thread:
         *****Hopefully Verizon will fix AND INCREASE the LOW AMOUNT OF DATA ALLOWED AT 1 TIME ON THIS APP SOON*****
    Once you have everything Backed Up on the External SD Card Remove the SD Card from the old phone and install it in the new phone
    NOW ACTIVATE YOUR NEW GALAXY S III:
    When you are in the Set-Up Wizard:
               If you are using Yahoo E-Mail and want it to be accessible by clicking on the E-Mail Icon
                   DO NOT click on the Yahoo Mail Icon during the E-Mail Account Set-up portion of the Set-Up Wizard!!!
             Instead click on the Other E-Mail Icon and enter your Yahoo E-Mail accounts there – this will assure that the Yahoo E-Mail accounts will
                   sync and update as they should AND be accessible by just clicking on the E-Mail Icon on your screen.
    To Restore your data from the Old Phone to the New Phone After the Set-Up Wizard is completed:
    Make sure you have the External SD card from your old phone installed in your new phone
    Go to the Play Store and install Verizon Messages
    Open the Verizon Messages program and click on Restore – IF YOU SEE 2 SD CARDS LISTED (ON MINE IT LISTED ExtSDCard and SDCARD0) you will have to copy EVERYTHING from the ExtSDCard to the SDCard0. Next Click on Restore again and ALL Text,
    Picture and Video messages will be restored to your New Phone.
    I HOPE THIS SAVES YOU ALOT OF AGGRAVATION AND FRUSTRATION WITH YOUR NEW GALAZY S III

    What type of mail account is it?
    POP, IMAP, etc?
    When you got your new phone did you put on a backup of your old phone?
    If POP, well POP works by keeping track of what it has downloaded or not. So if it got info from your last phone when you synced your new one, then it knows it already downloaded them, thus won't download them again (just how POP works).

  • I cant get my push notifcations to work on my iphone 5

    I cant get my push notification to work on my Iphone 5 it says i am noty registured for alerts i tried everything and still wont work...none of my apps alerts are working.espn, facebook, ebay ,ect any ideas that might help me or am i missing something

    and it says connect to itunes to use push notifications what am i missing?

  • How to get a voice mail or recording (from the microphone) to repeat?

    I want tp know how to get a voice mail to repeat, once I have listened to it.  Same question for something I have recorded with the microphone.

    Tap the voice mail or recording you want to repeat.  It should start playing from the begining again.

  • How to configure Cisco ASA 5500 to work with the iPhone

    We have Cisco ASA 5510 (latest firmware version), and apparently, according to Cisco website it is compatible with new iPhone 3G's IPSec client:
    http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/vpnclient/cisco_vpnclient/iPhone/2.0/connectivity/guide/iphone.html
    We've setup our first iPhone properly. It connects fine to the network, shows VPN connection as active. Gets a private IP address. But does not let any traffic go to the internal network. We thought it might be DNS problem, but it cannot connect to Exchange server even when using IP address instead of DNS. No luck either.
    After checking ASA logs, we found that iPhone goes through Phase 1 authentication correctly. But then gives some kind of error, mentioning "Attribute 5".
    Has anybody been successful configuring ASA5500 series (in particular 5510) to be used with iPhone?
    I noticed that many people are having these problems.
    Please do not post to this topic if you have ANY OTHER Cisco device.
    Cisco specifies that iPhone is compatible only with Cisco ASA 5500 Security Appliances and PIX Firewalls. Neither Cisco IOS VPN routers nor the VPN 3000 Series Concentrators support the iPhone VPN capabilities.
    Let's keep this topic only for users of ASA 5500 series and PIX Firewalls.
    It would be extremely helpful for a large number of users if somebody posted a list of settings for ASA5500 or PIX firewall that DO work with iPhone 2.0
    Thank you!
    Oleg R

    We found the solution and a bug in Cisco firmware (seems to be a bug).
    First of all, thanks to our Chief Systems Architect Seb, here is a config that worked for us on a Cisco 5520 (latest firmware).
    access-list iphone_splitTunnelAcl standard permit <insert ip> <insert mask>
    access-list iphone_splitTunnelAcl standard permit <insert ip> <insert mask>
    crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES-256-MD5 esp-aes-256 esp-md5-hmac
    crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-DES-SHA esp-des esp-sha-hmac
    crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-DES-MD5 esp-des esp-md5-hmac
    crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES-192-MD5 esp-aes-192 esp-md5-hmac
    crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-3DES-MD5 esp-3des esp-md5-hmac
    crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES-256-SHA esp-aes-256 esp-sha-hmac
    crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES-128-SHA esp-aes esp-sha-hmac
    crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES-192-SHA esp-aes-192 esp-sha-hmac
    crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES-128-MD5 esp-aes esp-md5-hmac
    crypto ipsec transform-set iphone esp-3des esp-sha-hmac
    crypto ipsec transform-set iphone mode transport
    crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-3DES-SHA esp-3des esp-sha-hmac
    crypto dynamic-map SYSTEMDEFAULT_CRYPTOMAP 65535 set pfs
    crypto dynamic-map SYSTEMDEFAULT_CRYPTOMAP 65535 set transform-set ESP-AES-128-SHA ESP-AES-128-MD5 ESP-AES-192-SHA ESP-AES-192-MD5 ESP-AES-256-SHA ESP-AES-256-MD5 ESP-3DES-SHA ESP-3DES-MD5 ESP-DES-SHA ESP-DES-MD5 iphone
    crypto map outside_map 10 match address vpn
    crypto map outside_map 10 set transform-set ESP-AES-256-SHA
    crypto map outside_map 65535 ipsec-isakmp dynamic SYSTEMDEFAULT_CRYPTOMAP
    crypto map outside_map interface outside
    crypto isakmp enable outside
    crypto isakmp policy 10
     authentication pre-share
     encryption 3des
     hash sha
     group 2
     lifetime 86400
    crypto isakmp policy 20
     authentication pre-share
     encryption aes-256
     hash sha
     group 5
     lifetime 86400
    crypto isakmp nat-traversal 20
    group-policy iphone internal
    group-policy iphone attributes
     wins-server value <insert ip> <insert ip>
     dns-server value <insert ip> <insert ip>
     vpn-tunnel-protocol IPSec
     ipsec-udp enable
     ipsec-udp-port 10000
     split-tunnel-policy tunnelspecified
     split-tunnel-network-list value iphone_splitTunnelAcl
     default-domain value <insert domain name>
    tunnel-group iphone type remote-access
    tunnel-group iphone general-attributes
     address-pool VPN-Pool
     authentication-server-group ActiveDirectory2
     default-group-policy iphone
    tunnel-group iphone ipsec-attributes
     pre-shared-key <insert pre-shared key>
    For iPhone you have to be using IPSec tab for configuration.
    We tried to set up this config using the wizards, but it would not work.
    Later it turned out that wizards by default set this setting:
    "crypto isakmp nat-traversal 20"
    equal to zero and there is no way to change it from the GUI.
    Only after we changed it (increased the value from 0 to 20) through the command line the connection started working perfectly.
    Please let me know how it works out for you.
    Message was edited by: Rogik
    Message was edited by: Rogik

  • How does Yahoo Push mail work?

    When you have the push mail option on, is the iPhone always connecting to the web looking for new mail?.....or does yahoo send it to the phone as soon as you receive it? Just curious as to how push mail will affect my battery life.

    MobileDev wrote:
    Whenever there's new mail, the server sends a response over the same connection. This is the "push" notification.
    I don't think that's quite accurate.
    From what I've been able to tell, Yahoo! Push is rather non-standard. Rather than using IMAP IDLE or standard P-IMAP, it uses a proprietary UDP-based form of out-of-band notification. When the phone gets one of these OOB notifications, then it opens a new connection to the IMAP server and checks for mail.
    I suspect that many of the reliability problems stem from these OOB notifications not being sent/received correctly (packet loss, perhaps?)

  • TS3276 Cant get yahoo e mail set up

    i cant get Yahoo e mail to work the mac mail softwear

    Well It was working before but it stop. I deleted it and try to set it up again but it would not do it automatic this time. It ask for pop and smtp. So went search on yahoo for the info and put it in as it said in the Appel website. It just would not take. 

  • Hi, I m using an iPhone 4 and my yahoo push email was working just fine but for the last few days I am experiencing some problem that is the emails are not getting pushed , I have to manually fetch the mails. So what could be the reason for this....

    Hi, I m using an iPhone 4 and my yahoo push email was working just fine but for the last few days I am experiencing some problem that is the emails are not getting pushed , I have to manually fetch the mails. So what could be the reason for this.....I have set the email setting to "push" mode. Moreover I can't edit the mail server address ....current it's on Yahoo SMTP server

    Will it get rectified and restored...if so after how long. What could be the reason for such outage kindly share,  as I am facing real problem because of this...

  • Yahoo push mail is not working

    After 2.0 upgrade, Yahoo push mail has stopped working. In settings "Fetch New Data" is set to "Push". But I don't get any news emails from Yahoo pushed to my iPhone. I have tried delete and reconfigure Yahoo mail, and also resetting the phone but still couldn't get push email to work.
    I've set a 25 message limit - I see 25 mails in my inbox but I also see 3 phantom messages the end. These 3 phantom messages show up with only the ">" sign with no sender or subject and I can't read them.
    Has anyone seen anything similar and have suggestions to resolve this? Thanks!

    I've had my iPhone for about a week now, one of the first to get it the Australian release. My yahoo mail was coming across fine for the first day or so but then it stopped. I removed the email account from the phone and re-added it. It hasn't even been able to grab my folders let alone my email. It just animates the little spinner and says "checking for mail..." forever.
    I just saw on another web site, somebody claimed if you removed the email account, went to yahoo and changed your password to something without special character, only letters and numbers, then re-add it that it would work. This based on the some story that the iPhone has trouble sending those characters. As my email was working at one point and since my password only has letters and numbers in the first place, I doubt this is what is going on. Here is the post, her instructions are in the comments: http://blogs.computerworld.com/iphoneand_yahooyahoo

  • How to get yahoo mail in notification in macbook pro in mountain lion os

    how to get yahoo mail in notification in macbook pro in mountain lion os??

    Are you using the web interface? You must add your Yahoo! Mail account to mail.app to get notifications.

  • How to get yahoo email to push in iPhone 4

    For the past 3 weeks my yahoo email is not pushing on my iphone 4. I have tried soft reset and even deleted
    my Yahoo account from my phone and set up again.  All this to no avail.  Prior to this period Yahoo would fail to push every now and then,  A soft reset was successful.
    I do have a second email account on this phone which fetches mail.  Settings on the iphone:  Push is "ON" and Fetch is set for "Manually".  Yahoo and this second account were initially set up at the same time over a year ago. 
    Where can I go from here.

    I am having the same issue.  It worked for me initially. Now it hasn't been pushing my emails for 3 days now.  I reset the e-mail and everything.  Apperently I read that Yahoo is aware of the situation. Please let me know if anyone else has heard about this or is experiencing the same issue.

  • Two days ago, I lost a bunch of my contacts, appointments on my calendar, and my mail is working differently on iPhone! What happened? I didn't change anything! This has happened to other people I know too. How do I get my stuff back?!

    Two days ago, I lost a bunch of my contacts, appointments on my calendar, and my mail is working differently on iPhone! What happened? I didn't change anything! This has happened to other people I know too. How do I get my stuff back?! Did Apple change/update something? Is it an iCloud issue? HELP!

    We are itunes users just like you.
    You should transfer all purchases to your computer.  File>Devices>Transfer Purchases
    You can redownload some purchases in some countries:
    Download previous purchases from the iTunes Store - Support - Apple

  • (Mac Mail) How to obtain Yahoo! Mail when: You're inbox dissapears or does not show after all settings seem perfectly in place.

    Hello everyone!
    Note**: I am in no way attempting to illustrate how to get FREE email listing from Yahoo! Mail, I am only reciting what I have stumbled upon. I do not know if Yahoo! actually wants this to work in Mail. but it does, so if they didn't want it to work they will patch it or something. I recommend that you take advantage of their paid service(annual) which allows POP forwarding of emails quickly and withou any need for reconfiguration.
          I hope this "fix" is not being rementioned or creates redundancy, however after hours of searching all sorts of foums(including the Apple forums ofcourse) I was unable to find a true fix. Simply put, I just got a brand new Macbook Air 13'' for Christmas 2011. I also bought a Macbook Pro 15'' back in late 2010. I was never able to get Yahoo! Mail configured even through methods of IMAP rather than POP or POP3. Oddly enough, on my Macbook Air and Pro, now, when I try to redo the Yahoo! settings, my Inbox would display messages for a matter of seconds and then the messages would dissapear. However, there was still a number next to my Yahoo! e-mail, accurately indicating how many unread messages I had. I fixed it like so:
    1) Go to www.yahoo.com-- Configure Yahoo! account via account settings to work off of IMAP rather than POP Forwarding. Do so by going into account options on the top right or left hand of your screen and clicking through the forwarding options until you see IMAP. Make sure you save your new settings! This is very simple and I feel requires no further explanation. If you become confused, let me know and I will go into detail then.
    2) Once your Yahoo! Mail account is IMAP simply go into the Mail application on OSX (Mac). On the top bar of the Mail pane click on the "Mail" option in between the Apple sign and File.  Then, Click on Preferences from that dropdown pane. When this window appears, Click on the "@" symbol that says "Accounts" right under it. This is in between General and RSS options. Under the left-hand list that says "Accounts", click on the "+" sign as opposed to the "-" sign you will see there. This will allow you to setup an account or additional accounts. A window then will appear with options:
    3) ****Make sure you ARE connected to the internet wirelessly or via ethernet for this part!****
    ---------- Full Name: (Enter Full Name Here)
    ---------- Email Address: (Type in full email address, e.g.: [email protected])
    ---------- Password: (Type in your password to your email account, this IS CASE SENSITIVE.)
    4) Now! Listen! (lol), hit create and let the mac show you the settings it has pinged back from the Yahoo! mail server. It should illustrate that your e-mail is an IMAP based email address etc. As long as the account is created with the IMAP configuration and Mail reads it as so, you have succeeded thus far.
    5) Critial Step here: Go into the Mail application on OSX (Mac). On the top bar of the Mail pane click on the "Mail" option in between the Apple sign and File.  Then, Click on Preferences from that dropdown pane. When this window appears, Click on the "@" symbol that says "Accounts" right under it. This is in between General and RSS options. Under the left-hand list that says "Accounts", click on the Yahoo! IMAP account. Close to the top of that page between the different Mail options and the account settings you will see three different bar pages: a) Account Information, b) Mailbox Behaviors and c) Advanced.
    6) Click on the Advanced tab. Do not touch anything on this page, except, IMAP Path Prefix. This is located in the middle of the Advanced page screen right above Port, where you will see |Port:   993   (Box IS checked for: USE SSL). In that IMAP Patch Prefix type the name of your Inbox(I say this because some people rename it in Yahoo!). Mine is simply "Inbox" so my configuration in Mail looks like so: | Imap Path Prefix:  Inbox |. After this, click on "General" or attempt to close the Mail options window and it will as you to save the new setting. Ofcourse, hit yes and click the Get Mail envelope and you will see your Inbox populate, assuming you have new mail.
    What this means: Test your OUTGOING mail server by sending yourself an e-mail either from your Yahoo! Mail or from another email. Thus, this will allow you tot est your INCOMING email as was now reconfigured to IMAP by seeing if you actually receive the email.
    Reason for doing so in this sequence: By letting Mail create the account it will properly import all of your mail folders you have in your Yahoo! Mail account. Obviously, your Inbox and Outbox as well as Sent and Trash folders will import but I have additional folders, for example, that also imported for putting financials or receipts into different folders for organization. Once these are populated naturally, by changing the IMAP Path Prefix you're telling the Mail application where to send your new emails. Atleast this is my understanding of it.
    Unfortuntely, I am not an officially educated 'techie", however, I have been fiddling with computers over the last 20 years and have been training myself to become Apple expert, seing as I have decided to completely convert to Apple products. Apple is just reliable. This, to me, is priceless. I truly hope I have helped you and that I have saved hours of Youtube video watching as well as forum searching for many. Should you have any questions, FEEL FREE to ask! I love helping others, hense why I have made this post(my first Apple post). Happy Holidays everyone and enjoy!

    dechamp wrote:
    What Mac Mail did was delete ALL inbox messages from my yahoo account, after one week from importing them to Mac Mail.
    The Yahoo server did exactly what you Mail program told it to do.
    Mail/Preferences/Account/Advanced - This setting is adjustable for each mail account.
    I didn't know about this feature until it was too late. I have already unchecked it for future emails.
    I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve these deleted messages back to my yahoo inbox.
    Not Really, you could forward them to your account, after you've told your mail program not to delete the emails at all, but they will show up as being from you instead of the original sender. The originals at Yahoo have been dumped and probably purged. It would take an IT manager at Yahoo to manually replace the emails, not much chance of that.
    I've already asked yahoo to "restore" my inbox to a day ago. That should help me with retrieving some of the messages back, I hope.
    Also, I was wondering about the sync feature on the Mac Mail and what will actually happen if I use it. Does it apply to mail messages, or to address book and calendar entries?
    The sync feature refers to IMAP email accounts like .Mac or .Me or an Imap gmail account. I didn't think Yahoo offered IMAP email accounts.
    Apple's MobileMe membership will let you sync your Mail, AddressBook, Calender, personal website with iWeb, etc.
    "MobileMe is a service that pushes new email, contacts, and calendar events over the air to all your devices. So your iPhone, Mac, and PC stay in perfect sync."
    http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
    I wanted to use Mac Mail, see if I liked it or not, then decide to get a MobileMe account. However, this is still a side note, since my yahoo account is my main email client.
    You seem to be very well informed, and I was wondering if I can ask you to clarify a point for me. Do you know how to archive the inbox in the Mac Mail?
    And thank you for answering my queries.

  • I can't get my me mail to work on iCloud keeps rejecting my user id nothing works on the pad or pod either to do with mobile me aaaaaaaaaaaargh

    I can't get my me mail to work on iCloud keeps rejecting my user id nothing works on the pad or pod either to do with mobile me aaaaaaaaaaaargh
    Apple - please please let us know what is going on

    ewaller wrote:
    fazio96,
    Could I prevail upon you to come up with a better thread title?  I resisted my first inclination to move the thread to "Dustbin"; but I will say the title does little to inspire us to help.   You may wan to read the article linked in my signature.
    Thanks.
    I'll change it now. I just realized it sounds rough, but I was mad because I couldn't get it work, it isn't anyone's fault, sorry
    EDIT: I got it to work at an usable state! By using the 8192cu driver on the AUR and the suggestions in the comments about disabling power-save, I got it to be usable. It now has up to 8% packet loss, not 30-40% like before, and the ping spikes are now 300-400 ms and less frequent, not 1000-1200ms. It's not working really well but now I can at least surf the web. Thank you all for the patience.
    EDIT 2: after testing more I realized it still disconnects every few seconds when I'm far from the AP. However, when connected, I still have very strong signal. If I use it on windows or another distro it doesn't disconnect. I tried compiling the driver from realtek by myself using the istructions in the second post but I don't know how to fix some compile errors, so I decided I'll stick with my usb dongle. Maybe someone will find a better solution.
    Last edited by fazo96 (2013-09-30 16:08:10)

  • I have a macbook pro version 10.7.5 and my mailbox will not open at all and comes up with a quit message even though it is not open. how can i get into my account. it works on my iPhone an i have internet and all other functions working on my computer

    I have a macbook pro version 10.7.5 and my mailbox will not open at all and comes up with a quit message even though it is not open. how can i get into my account. it works on my iPhone and i have internet and all other functions working on my computer

    Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
    Step 1
    Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
    View ▹ Show Log List
    from the menu bar.
    Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
    When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
    Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
    Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
    Step 2
    In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports (not "Diagnostic and Usage Messages") for crash reports related to the crashed process. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot. I know the report is long. Please post all of it anyway.
    In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
    Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report—they're very long and rarely helpful.

Maybe you are looking for