Push e-mail from Yahoo is unreliable?

I set up a yahoo.com mail address just to take advantage of the "push" feature. I also had my other e-mail addresses forward a copy of their messages to the yahoo account, so i can be notified of e-mails when they come in. This worked great for a day, and then it stopped working for at least an evening, without me having changed any settings. I still receive the e-mails, but only when I manually check for mail, and hence I don't get a new mail notification on my iphone, which is the whole point of having push.
Has Yahoo push service been flaky and unreliable in the past? Or am I neglecting a key setting or something.

Hello dgalvan123, Yahoo! push mail has never worked well consistently, you will find it working for a period of time, then all of the sudden it will just stop working. The problem lies with Yahoo! and their hardware/software. I've been in contact with Yahoo! about this problem since the original iPhone came out and still we have no permanent fix.
All the best, Steve....

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