Yahoo push mail DEAD

Yahoo stopped pushing mail to my iphone 3G. I get gmail pushed just fine, just not yahoo. I have deleted and re-initialized my yahoo mail via the "yahoo" presets when setting up a mail account. I have also done a "factory restore" of my phone's OS (setting it up as a new phone and NOT restoring from backup). On a side note, doing the restore has done wonders for battery life. Much much better. Any clue on why yahoo is no longer pushing??

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

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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 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.

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?)

Yahoo Push mail

Is this available yet? If so, how is it set up?

From what I read from other posters on this forum once you set up the account through the iPhone it should work as a "push" account. It works that way when I am on my wifi network at home, but on the Edge nework I have to refresh as well.
This is my first smart phone so I am new to the push mail. I am open to any knowledge that anyone wants to part with on the subject.
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Yahoo! Mail - No PUSH NOTIFICATIONS From Sleep Via Wi-Fi - Is There A Fix?

I'm a power user, 100% positive I've got all the settings correct in the iPad. Push is turned to 'on', I've been to the Advanced screen and made sure that Yahoo is individually set to Push as well. While I have the 3G model since Friday's release, I have not set up an ATT account, have Cellular Data turned off. I've got strong wi-fi at work and at home, so no need for ATT yet.
When I am actively using the iPad, I'll hear the 'ding' and see that I've got new Yahoo Mail. Push works in that scenario. But when the iPad has been sitting with its backlight off, in Sleep on the counter for, say, 20 minutes, I'll hear my iPhone (connected to ATT, not wi-fi) ding-ding-dinging away with new mail notifications while my iPad stays silent.
Is Yahoo Mail push simply not supported via wi-fi? Is it not supported by the iPad at all?
I've read many other posts in this forum from other frustrated Yahoo Mail users. Is there a fix?
TIA

If I put my iPhone into Airplane mode and then turn on WiFi (effectively making it WiFi only) then Yahoo Mail push won't work. It doesn't matter if the phone is awake or not.
Yahoo actually states that push mail will only work for the iPhone if you are connected to a carrier. See their troubleshooting guide.
That said, I don't know if this was changed for the iPad or not.
Yahoo Push mail appears to be broken today anyway. At least I'm not getting push notifications on either of my Yahoo accounts.
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Is there a way to disable push mail from Yahoo? It's draining my battery

I'm on the prepaid plan and every 10-15 minutes my iphone turns on with a "The last transaction cost $0.00" message. I don't mind the message (although it is a bit annoying) but my problem is that this turns the LCD on for about 2 minutes at a time.
I charged my battery to 100% last night, haven't used it at all today and after just turning it on a few minutes ago I had the "Your battery life is at 10%" message followed by a 5% remaining message a few minutes later.
I've heard that it's the yahoo push mail service thats causing the phone to give the message (since it connects to the internet). My Yahoo account is my main one and I'd hate to have to login to yahoo's site each time to check it (the email functionality was a big selling point for me with the iphone). ATT/Apple don't seem to want to disable this message/"Feature", so I'm guessing I would need to step in and do something on my end.
Is there any way to disable yahoo mail from "pushing" messages to my phone? I can hit the Check Mail button if I have to.

Hi Everyone,
To give an update on the situation: I disabled the Yahoo account and it seems to make a VERY NOTICEABLE difference in battery life - prior to this my battery would drain quite rapidly but since disabling it it's only lost about 15-20% over the past 24 hours (and thats with using the video/music/internet functions for about an hour and a half).. Prior to this it would have been close to drained under the same circumstances.
Also, to confirm, the "Your last transaction cost 0.00" messages only appear when accessing the internet manually now. before they appeared every 10-15 minutes with no interaction from myself at all (while it was sitting idle, while watching videos, while charging, while in my pocket, etc..)
I do have it set to only check Manually but Yahoo would seem to check on it's own even though this setting is checked (I'm guessing it has to do with the Push setting). Aside from draining the battery, it was quite annoying having 30 or so "Your transaction cost $0.00" messages to click through whenever I turned on the phone.
I did have the screen set to shut off after 1 min, but the 'your transaction cost..' messages would first wake the iphone up, the screen would stay bright for about 30 seconds, dim for about 30 seconds, then turn on bright again for 1 minute until it shut off. I'm guessing the screen (being on for about 10-15 minutes per hour due to this) and the fact that yahoo accesses the internet on such a frequent basis are what cut the battery life down.
I really wish I could make Yahoo work more like Gmail and have it manually search for new mail

Yahoo e-mail password incorrect

when trying to open my yahoo e-mail on my iphone I received the following message after prompting me to enter my password.
the user name or password for apple.imap.mail.yahoo.com is incorrect.
I also went into settings and tried to re-enter my password and got the same message....
I would appreciate any suggestions......
Thanks,
DP

I'm so happy that I'm not the only one. I'm from Malaysia and I have issues with Yahoo Mail for about 1 month already. Before this, Yahoo Push Mails used to be working perfectly, then all of a sudden, it's not pushing instantly anymore, it's like I got the push mail to my iPhone 4S about 2 hours at least after I received the mail. But then about 1 week ago, it seemed to be fine again, it pushes just almost instantly. Until yesterday night, around 12 midnight, I stopped receiving any mails to my iPhone. Well I can still check them on browsers but not anymore in the built in Mail app. Everytime I try to open the Mail app, i'll be prompted saying that the username and password is incorrect, bla bla bla... I've tried everything, deleting and adding back the mail account, reboot my iPhone, but non of them worked. Now, Apple or Yahoo, whoever held the responsibility should know that how important push mails are to us, we missed everything if it's not working. Please fix it soon... I love Apple and Yahoo, don't make me change my point of view.

1.1.2 push mail works!

To my earlier posts about major volume improvements (and other posts about other fixes) now add another one. Yahoo push mail now works great, with less than 5 seconds to push email to the iPhone. Before it was off, on, etc. with apple blaming yahoo and vice versa. This is not a minor update- there are lots of fixes throughout. Getting 1.1.2 is a must.

Agree completely, but right now I am just really happy to have the many fixes 1.1.2 has. The volume improvement alone was just really huge and fixed a major flaw that really bugged me. The push mail fix is just icing on the cake. I bet we will find lots of subtle but important fixes throughout as people start to find them.

My yahoo e-mail not pushing to iPhone4, again. Had this same problem in October for several weeks. My kids and husband have 3 other types of smart phones, and none of them are experiencing this problems. This has been going on for 2 weeks so far.

My yahoo e-mail is not pushing to my iPhone4, again. Had this same problem for several weeks in October/November 2011. It's been a problem again for two weeks now. My kids and husband have three other types of smart phones, and none of them have had this problem. I'm NOT impressed. I've seen that others in the iPhone community have also been having this problem. Is Apple doing anything about it?

Read this: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17333604#17333604
It's a yahoo issue. Nothing you can do on your phone to fix it.

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...

I shrank my Yahoo e-mail by pushing the control button. How do I restore to original size

I shrank my Yahoo e-mail by pushing the control button. How do I restore to original size?
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Just once or twice
== I pushed the control button

I corrected my problem, which was having very small print when I went to Yahoo e mail, by clicking on reset on the view menu. Only my text was small, the toolbars were fine.

Here's how to set up Yahoo POP mail with instant "PUSH" functionality

Originally I used iTunes to sync and dump my POP mail settings into the iPhone during my first sync after activation.
DON'T do it this way and if you did delete that account from the iPhone and then go into the Mail settings on the iPhone and set up the mail settings under the "Add Account" feature. The top selection is Yahoo. It will simply ask you for the mail username and password. Once you complete this you will now have the greatly useful and most desired instan "PUSH" mail promised in conjunction with AT&T, Yahoo and Apple. A great thing.
All other POP mail settings are set to simply check your email every 15, 30, 45 etc minutes. This is no fun.
Once I reset the iPhone and set up the new account email is instant and you get the beloved "bing" alert as the come in.

I was able to get this to work and push email works with my Yahoo account. Unfortunately, the iPhone mail does not respect the 'reply-to' setting for yahoo mail.
When I send mail from Yahoo mail on the web, the reply-to address makes it look like the mail is coming from my standard business account.
But when I send mail from my iPhone, the "@yahoo.com" email address is all that shows up in the outgoing message!
I don't like this because I would prefer that all the email I send has the same reply-to address, so my recipients don't get confused.
Is there a workaround or fix for this?

Help with Yahoo push e-mail

Hi guys, I just bought my iPhone this afternoon and just wondering how can I push my yahoo e-mails to my iPhone? I've been trying to do it but it won't push right away.
Thanks

I tried it through July and also had sporadic experience. I was using the "push" on the iPhone and POP on my Mac. I'm not sure if using both simultaneously had anything to do with issues. A compromise I found was to use AOL. It's free, it's IMAP (so the iPhone, your computer, and webmail stay in sync), and (unlike .Mac) you can assign your own domain to AOL and use that (remarkably still for free). If you use the webmail, you get the little AOL Free Mail ad line at the bottom of emails you send, but you don't get that from Mail.app, the iPhone, or from any source if using your own domain.
Push sounded great . . . . especially when you have to use your email for receiving MMS, but the AOL IMAP with 15 min checking has been working fine for me for about a month now.

Yahoo! Mail Doesn't Push

OK, I set-up my existing Yahoo! e-mail account on my iPhone. I didn't get any kind of notification when new mail came in. I expect that's what push is all about, right? I don't think I'm supposed to have to launch the mail app and wait for it to check for new messages over the slow EDGE network constantly all day long. So, I found this post on Mac Forums:
[quote]Here are the steps I used with my existing free yahoo account:
1) on the iphone - main menu-> settings -> mail -> add account -> y! mail -> enter information -> save -> go back to accounts list and select the new account -> advanced -> in the settings (IMAP Path Prefix) enter imap.apple.mail.yahoo.com
2) Make sure the account is on.
3) Sometimes the "push" is within seconds, sometimes it takes a couple minutes. My guess is they're still working on the server from the yahoo side. It's only been active for 5 days, so give it some time.[/quote]
I tried that and my Yahoo! mail still doesn't push. Does anybody have any other suggestions?
By the way, this free Yahoo! account gets a lot of spam. If I upgrade to the Yahoo! Plus e-mail account, will I still be able to get push? Thanks.

Neil2,
I just moved my personal email from Cox to Yahoo on June 30 after getting an iPhone and have been doing a lot of tinkering and researching. So, I may be able to help. I've noticed that if I have more than one email account turned on on the iPhone then the "push" doesn't work (i.e., they can be setup, but disabled and it's OK). Also, I am using the Plus account and after 3 weeks have not received one single spam email, not even into the junk folder. So, Yahoo's filters appear to be working great. Lastly, with the Plus account, you can also use POP, so I set that up on my Mac. I'm not positive, but it appeared that if the Mac retreived email using POP, it would mark the email as unread on my iPhone. So, although the message would be there, the number indicator on the Mail icon would disappear.
As far as your quote . . . I don't understand why you're tinkering with the settings. You should just set it up simply using the Y Mail default on iPhone and it works fine. I've read in a few places that you can't simply put in the apple.imap server in the settings because there is some kind of encryption key being exchanged in the background to limit the imap use to iPhones and setting up an "other" account does not establish this type of connection. So, it won't work.
Good luck!

Yahoo push mail DEAD

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