Does Yahoo mail work properly with a personal domain???

I don't think it does. I have all three types of Yahoo accounts - a freebie, a paid one with @yahoo.com address, and a custom domain with Yahoo being host. You can only use the Yahoo mail setup option on the iPhone with accounts that end in @yahoo.com. That part is hard coded into the email ID field. Those work with push fine.

The only way to configure the custom domain, even if it is hosted by Yahoo, is using the "other" option. The only configuration information I have for that is a POP address (pop.bizmail.yahoo.com). Perhaps Yahoo mail can be custom configured for IMAP access, but I don't know what that setting is. I tried defining an IMAP account with the Yahoo settings, even changing pop.bizmail to imap.bizmail, with no luck. I was guessing at that point. It seems that when you choose the Yahoo Mail configuration option on the iPhone, it is predefined for whatever Yahoo needs for IMAP, but you can only use @yahoo email accounts.

I have ATT DSL from a long time ago, so my Yahoo email actually is a blahblah@swbell.net account. So when setting up my Yahoo push email, my entry looks like blahblah@swbell.net@yahoo.com. Looks weird, sure, but it works! 🙂

I have a domain through Yahoo! Webhosting. On my PC, if I go to mail.yahoo.com, I can access my mail by logging in with my email address (name@mydomain.com), and password. So, i think it works similarly on the iphone.

So, my setup looks something like Elistans.

The account name shows up as: name@mydomain.com@yahoo.com

And this seems to work fine. The "push" feature doesn't seem to work for me very well, though. - with my regular Yahoo account, or for the account with my own domain. I have to click on the email icon before it downloads messages? Anyone have similar problems?

Samuel: I don't know if you have resolved this yet. I have a personal domain through yahoo andd setup multiple emails on my iphone using the "Other" option. For the yahoo settings I think you have to have the following:

Pop: pop.bizmail.yahoo.com
Smtp: smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com

User name is going to be your email address for the account (e.g. myusername@personaladdress.com). For the password it will be whatever you set up for that email address under "Managing Services" --> Email Control Panel... Hope that helps...

Chalcas:

Can you resolve my dilemma?

Original account was name@rocketmail.com. Yahoo purchased rocketmail but allowed us to keep rocketmail address by using "name.rm" as Yahoo ID. Password remained the same.

On "other" option, do not know if IMAP or POP.

Name: First Last
Address: name@rocketmail.com
Description: name@rocketmail.com
Host Name: mail.rocketmail@yahoo.com
User Name: name.rm
Password: password
Host name: smtp.rocketmail.yahoo.com
User Name: Optional
Password: Optional

Doesn't work--but, am I even close?

Thanks

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Richert:

The username has to be the email address for the account for both the pop.bizmail.yahoo.com and the smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com settings. Under the "Other" settings on the iPhone you want to choose "POP" to enter these settings. For the yahoo.bizmail accounts you want to make sure that under the advanced settings for the iPhone (this is after you have setup everything for the "POP" settings under "Other" on the iPhone) that the Secure SSL is set to OFF (this is for both of them)...

Also, you want to make sure that you set the user name (again the email address of the account) and password for the smtp settings as well...

That should do it...I have about 5 email addresses from my personal domain (setup through yahoo bizmail) and they are working fine. To answer the other persons question about the emails pushing: that doesn't work on the iPhone yet... I have to set the iPhone to retrieve every 15 or 30 minutes (not many options there actually - hopefully that will change in the future)...

Hope that helps...

Samuel:

I don't think the iPhone has the push mail capabilities. You have to set it up to retrieve the mail manually, every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes or every hour. I wish it did have the push mail. I also wish I could write emails where I wanted to BCC someone... I still can't figure out how to get that field up when you are writing an email. I just refuse to believe that they left that out...

As far as syncing the contacts that seems to be working for me just fine. However, I haven't really added or deleted anyone to really test it out...

Samuel:

I don't think the iPhone has the push mail
capabilities. You have to set it up to retrieve the
mail manually, every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes or
every hour. I wish it did have the push mail.

Chaicas,

This is not true. The iPhone DOES have push email capabilities. I've been using it and it works great! However, it does not appear to be able to send using a Yahoo personal domain (i.e.,non "yahoo.com"). I receives them just fine.

To activate an account with push, don't set it up as POP; set it up using the Yahoo option. Also, it seems to only work when it is the only email account on the iPhone or at least the only account turned on.

Push email has nothing to do with the iPhone's capabilities. This push everyone refers to has to do with a feature of the IMAP protocol called IDLE. This has been out there for YEARS, most recently with the Treo series and Chatteremail client software.

Apple has enabled the iPhone mail client to work with the Yahoo IMAP servers to delivery this capability. It only works with Yahoo at this point, not with any other IMAP server.

Yahoo servers have been providing spotty service over the past few days, presumably because of the thousands of iPhone users hitting them up for new accounts. It does work, it is just not very consistent for some people.

I'm in the same boat - I have a grandfathered in domain name of (@pacbell.net) and I want to use IMAP. Can't do it currently. Is this on Apple's / Yahoo's radar screen???

- Thanx
- Jon