Yahoo/Apple mail CONSTANT server errors!

I've had my iPhone now for a few months and at least one time a day I keep getting the following message when checking for new mail with Yahoo: "CANNOT GET MAIL...the connection to the server "imap.apple.mail.yahoo.com" failed.
Usually if I try it a second time it goes through. However tonight (actually all day Saturday/Saturday night), I have not been able to retrieve any mail as I have gotten the same error message for the past 24 hours. What is the deal with this?

How do you know it's a Yahoo problem? Couldn't it be an Apple problem as well?
Common sense, for one reason.
A connection to the server failed error message when an email account is checked for new messages is usually a problem at the server - a very high percentage of the time.
A process of elimination for another reason.
If you are accessing another email account with the iPhone's Mail client, and no such problem with the other account or accounts, BINGO!
If your connection to the internet is working otherwise, this is another BINGO but not as significant as the first.
News reports for another.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9909639-7.html
And last but not least, a large number of posts here from time to time reporting problems with a free Yahoo account, including copies of email correspondence from Yahoo technical support personnel admitting the problem lies with Yahoo, and we are working on it - blah, blah.

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