Is this an iPhone issue,
a Yahoo issue or
an AT&T issue?
I reset twice and yahoo has not pushed since Friday 8/24.
a Yahoo issue or
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I reset twice and yahoo has not pushed since Friday 8/24.
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My Yahoo stopped pushing
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I have had these problems. Not sure who is at fault.
Do you get mail when you go into the inbox? If not, are you getting "Connecting" or "Checking for Mail ...".
I find when not pushing that I need to go into a diffent folder (like Sent) then back into InBox. Some have said that turning of WiFi and only using Edge helps but that has not been my experience. You may want to delete the Yahoo Account and then re-add but only use Edge when doing that.
When I go to the inbox i make it check a couple of times then i get all of the missed messages. It takes a few attempts for it to update. I'll try the delete and re add the account while on edge.
Thx
Thx
I know you said you did this, but when this happens I normally just POWER OFF and POWER ON (only holding down button on top). After which it starts Pushing again. If it just sets there with "Checking for Mail ..." then I have found that I need to delete the oldest email in my InBox.
Yahoo push on the iPhone is a joke, so bad IMO that they shouldn't be allowed to call it push. Even when it is "working" there are lags, and regardless I now open my email and manually check all the time, assuming its not working. Very surprised and disappointed w/it considering Steve touted this feature from day 1
I understand your frustration. I have been pretty upset over the last couple months. I got my phone 1 week after release and have been fighting with it ever since. However, since this is my first email phone I don't have a lot to compare it to. My understanding is that BlackBerry is pretty solid and I am hoping that Yahoo and Apple can get this nailed down.
On the other hand, I love the iPhone and when the Email works I could not imagine any other device that I would rather have. In my earlier Posts I explained some of the tricks I use when having problems. They seem to work pretty well. You might want to give them a try.
I have done them also, but they are short-term. Apple needs to fix this soon.
Even MS exchange has a "heartbeat," which will initiate a sync every x minutes (depending on the servers settings) if there hasn't been any activity. I've had emails for over an HOUR before I remembered to check, and certainly more overnight.
I have since gone back to gmail-autosync. With yahoo you can't even choose this, its PUSH only! What a joke! No, its not the end of the world and I am not returning my iPhone because of it, but it just reiterates that Apple is a consumer-based company with no understanding of the business user..
Upgrade to Yahoo Mail Plus
I decided to pay the $20 per year and get Yahoo Mail Plus. The reason is that I mainly wanted to remove the advertising and add some of the Plus features. One of the features is POP support which I may use consider using.
However, not sure it is related, but I have NOT had any failures (discussed below) since moving to Mail Plus on Monday at 3pm pst. Kind of early to make any predictions since I have went for a few days before without failures in the past. Also, maybe Yahoo is improving things with the rollout of their New Email system this week on new servers. However, my account has not been move to the new servers since I am still on the old beta. Again, may not be related.
I decided to pay the $20 per year and get Yahoo Mail Plus. The reason is that I mainly wanted to remove the advertising and add some of the Plus features. One of the features is POP support which I may use consider using.
However, not sure it is related, but I have NOT had any failures (discussed below) since moving to Mail Plus on Monday at 3pm pst. Kind of early to make any predictions since I have went for a few days before without failures in the past. Also, maybe Yahoo is improving things with the rollout of their New Email system this week on new servers. However, my account has not been move to the new servers since I am still on the old beta. Again, may not be related.
I've been a yahoo plus paid user for a couple years and have been using it on my iphone since release day. I find the push feature to be sporadic. I am hoping this is addressed ASAP. I can always manually fetch my mail but don't always get a push.
Stopped Pushing this morning after working grate since Monday.
This time I did my normal of deleting the oldest messages. That did not work right away so I switched to WiFi and it started working again. Not sure if WiFi helped or just timing.
Now receiving mail via Push.
This time I did my normal of deleting the oldest messages. That did not work right away so I switched to WiFi and it started working again. Not sure if WiFi helped or just timing.
Now receiving mail via Push.
the problem with Yahoo Push mail is it is a not a true push mail. Instead of pushing the email to your iphone instead it sends a text telling your phone to poll server and check for mail then download it.
True push will put the email on your phone with out ever logging into the server. Yahoos your phone has to log in to get it.
True push will put the email on your phone with out ever logging into the server. Yahoos your phone has to log in to get it.
The problem with "True" Push is that the mail client needs to always be connected to the server and what I understand is that it must keep a heart beat going to that it does not time out. So if you get very little email I would think the 1st method would be better (where the phone is told to login and get the email) and if you get a lot of email then the second method would be better where it stays connected.
I honestly would not care how it works for now as long as when my mail hits the server it hits my phone very soon there after.
you do not need to be always connected to the server. The blackberry does not always stay connected to the server. The push mail method has a much less draw on servers. the only thing the mail server needs to know is if you phone can take a text message. When the phone is off it will get teh emails as soon as it is turned on again.
The way yahoo is doing is a poor work around for push.
been doing the same to me. sucks. hope they fix that soon. really annoying and missing a lot of emails that could use timely responses
I have the opposite problem. My Yahoo push's all the time.... and I wish I could turn it off... so it only pull's. I have a couple email accounts and they're set to "Auto-Check Manually". But the Yahoo is always in "push" mode. Is there anyway to set it as "pull" only?
It's a secondary address that I don't need to check very often.
Thanks.
It's a secondary address that I don't need to check very often.
Thanks.
ok, i called apple support on the yahoo and other mail issues. The guy told me that it is probably the network with att. So what he had me do was turn on airplane mode for about 15 seconds. Then turn it back on, do a soft reset and see what happens...so far it has fixed it. I sent an e-mail from another account on my computer and it gets to me in a seconds...hope this helps...we'll see if it continues to work
You could set that Account "OFF" in Settings / Mail / yahoo account /. The set to "ON" whenever you want to check it.
Or, you could buy Mail Plus ($20 per year) and you would be able to use POP to access the account. I have not tried it but I believe you can set it up under "Other" as POP.