Problems With Yahoo Email

Question

I've had problems with my yahoo email account since I got my iPhone about a month ago. Looking through the threads on this support forum, it appears that these problems are shared with other people using Yahoo email with the iPhone. It seems there are three main problems:
1. _*Push Email Doesn't Work*_: Despite the fact that push email with yahoo has been advertised as a selling point for the iPhone, it doesn't work reliably. Sometimes it works and you're notified immediately when a new email arrives, and sometimes it doesn't work and a new email won't show up until you go in and manually check for new messages.
2. _*Emails Don't Send*_: You compose a message, hit send, you hear the sent message sound, but it doesn't get sent. It doesn't show up in the sent messages folder and the recipient doesn't receive the message. This happens to me about once a day, and the solution appears to be to delete the yahoo email account and then recreate it. After this, sending emails will work again, but only for a certain amount of time and then it stops.
3. *_Emails Get Deleted_*: This is the worst problem of all. This has happened to me about half a dozen times in the month I've had my iPhone. I go to check my mail, the messages are there, but after it retrieves messages, some of the emails immediately disappear. They're gone for good. They're not in the trash or on the server.
In this forum, there are several threads dealing with each of these issues, and several hundred posts from users saying they are experiencing the same problems. There also appears to be no solution to any of these problems. In fact, neither Apple nor Yahoo have even acknowledged that these problems exist.
I finally decided to abandon my Yahoo email account. I waited for the 1.1.2 upgrade to see if that would solve the problems, but it appears not. I'm now using another IMAP account on my iPhone and I sent messages to all my contacts telling them to use this new account from now on. My advice to anyone using the iPhone is to not use Yahoo email account. There's just way too much frustration and it seems Apple and Yahoo are not even working on a solution.

Answer 1

I agree with Ifan and the Yahoo people. I think it has to do with the Iphone more than the Yahoo network. Since when I sent my mail, sometimes I don't even see the 'sent" mail in my outbox locally. Which really means it never left my Iphone. Secondly, I noticed sometimes when I go to the Safari settings and delete the history, cookies and cache, I could send again. Thirdly, since mail sends and sometimes doesn't, it means it CAN send. Just that your Iphone varied in its settings. Well, there's only a few things that fluntuates in your iPhone, connection, software update and memory. I think
the memory, and more specifically the cache whether DNS or Safari cache need deleting regularly.
Here's my hit-all-the-notes approach:
-first sync everything with your computer as back up
-go to mail setting in your iphone, delete your yahoo account
-important : on itunes under the Iphone "info" tab, uncheck "sync with mail server"
-RESTORE your iphone. Now you have the latest updated software
-sync your info again
-re-setup yahoo mail (make sure you have yahoo mail Plus / pro)
-turn off Wi-Fi settings on the phone
-set up your mail options so that you are doing everything locally
-have a habit of deleting emails (also from trash) as you go, since they are on your server already
-turn off your phone every night you go to bed, and after each time you turned Wi-Fi and off
-clear history, cache and cookies under Safari settings after prolonged use
-when you hit send, do not leave that window right way, wait for a minute
Good luck and let me know if it works.
Hope it helps.