Push email for Yahoo Business Account

How do you get your mail to push to your iphone using a regular Yahoo! account. Because mine will not work, I have to check manual every-time. I never get any emails at all ("push" way)

Thats exactly what I did but my emails wont "push" grrrrrrrrr

After replying to 5 post today about my iphone not "pushing" email for the past 3 days. Now it works, Instantly fast, now everything on my iphone works. I love it!

Dean111 - Are you able to send Yahoo Business Mail using your iPhone? I'm having an odd issue that only one other person has reported.

My other three email accounts are working fine, but my Yahoo Business account is giving me a challenge. I can receive (looks like "push is working, too), but when I send, the system only goes through the motions. There is no error message. However, messages are not reaching their destination, nor do they show up in any sent folder. All relevant settings are identical for the four accounts.

I originally tried setting up my Yahoo Business account through a sync with my computer. That configuration didn't allow me to send, but I did receive an error message. After playing with the outgoing server config, I still couldn't get send to work. I finally deleted the original Yahoo account and added it back, using the Yahoo selection on the iPhone. Now it looks as if messages are being sent, but they aren't. Yahoo says it is a service provider problem. AT&T says it is an Apple issue. I'm headed to the Apple store tomorrow, if I can't resolve it. Any advise?

Did you have to do anything special to get it to work? Because My Yahoo Mail accounts aren't even downloading messages automatically every 15 minutes, like my GMail account does. Seems I have to manually check the Yahoo ones to get any mail.

so are you guys using Yahoo! Small business accounts?
The type where you can use your own domain name? If so, do those accounts push to your iPhone? I was going to use Yahoo! small business for my company, but the rep said it was only pop3, not IMAP.
Any insight would be helpful.

Appreciate the feedback, Dean111. I empathize -- same experience with Yahoo and AT&T support. I've tried your config suggestions, as well as several others, but this weird glitch remains. I'll try Apple tomorrow and let you know if I'm successful. Will be sure to cover the "push" aspect, too.

hey dean111 my yahoo regular account does not push my new mail i have to manually checked it first because it doesn't automaticaly chech every 15 30 or 60 minutes.. you mentioned about making a new regular account so that it will push it.. wat can i do to make my existing yahho account to push mails to me because i got a lot of people and most of my transactions are mailed to my existing yahoo account.. what should i do besides making a new account??? please help.. thanks and more power to us iPhone users

SVegas - Yes, I'm using a Yahoo Small Business account. That's the only one where I'm experiencing the odd issue. My other pop3 account (not Yahoo!) is working, fine. I can receive Yahoo Small Business mail. I even think "push" is working when on wireless. However, when sending, it looks and sounds as if I'm sending successfully, but the messages go into neverneverland. They do not show up in any sent folders, nor do they reach their destination. I'll post tomorrow, if I make any progress.

hey men what did u do to make your regular yahoo account to automatically push it to the iphone?? did you make a new account?? can you teach me how to make my old existing account automatically pushe emails because i need this old email account and it would be harder if i will make a new one for the messages they are sending to my old account.. help please.. thanks

I spent a good bit of time on the phone with Yahoo and trying just about every work around you could think of. Here's what I posted in another thread (I hope it helps)...

Push works on @yahoo accounts, but not yahoo accounts that are @yourbusinessneame.com. The yahoo accounts support IMAP, the Yahoo Small Business accounts only support POP, hence the pull, instead of push. (And from what I've read, IMAP isn't even a "real" push...whatever that means).

More simply put, this is not a Blackberry. If you want instant e-mail, you're not going to get it. Even the push for @yahoo.com e-mail addresses isn't as fast as on a blackberry. The folks I talked to at Yahoo said that RIM monitors Yahoo's mail servers independently to make sure you get the instant "push". They said that's not the case with iPhone and Yahoo - it's just IMAP.

If you have IMAP or an IMAP enabled exchange server it seems you can get a better than "every 15 minutes" e-mail solution. However, it probably won't be instantaneous.

As for forwarding to your @yahoo account, I've tried it a few times and haven't had luck with it.

There were times I got almost instant push from @yahoo.com accounts. However, I'm thinking it was luck. I tested it repeatedly and there was no consistency to the speed.

To save you some time, here are some failed work arounds I tried:

I thought maybe I should just run everything through my @yahoo account. I went and paid the $20 to sign up for mail plus so I could send from all my accounts from @yahoo (even though I pay for the two other accounts; though I should get this back).

In any case, from there I thought I'd set the @yahoo account up to check those two accounts. That didn't lead to a "push" effect because it was way too slow. It wasn't any better than just checking every 15 minutes.

For the second alternative I thought I'd forward my other Yahoo accounts to my @yahoo account. That too was a flop. It didn't work any faster.

There's also been some talk about using .Mac for your push technology.

I spent about 30 minutes or so checking that out. As a caveat, I was doing it with a trial account, not a full one. I've tested the push speed with an e-mail sent straight to the .Mac e-mail address and to another account checked by .Mac. In each case, no dice. The push isn't "Blackberry" speed.

I did have a few times where it'll be almost instant. However, this brings to mind the old line from college that "correlation isn't causation." I think sometimes it just happens quickly, it's not an actual push.

Long story short, for the casual e-mail user this is a great phone with a good e-mail solution. However, if you need instant e-mail like you're used to on a Blackberry (journalist, politico, overworked-lawyer, etc.,) you might not be pleased.

If I'm wrong, please correct me. (I'd love to be wrong and find a Blackberry-like push).

Very helpful information, UTF and Dean111. Thanks. Im disappointed, but can live without "push". Now if I can only figure out what the heck is happening with my outbound @mybusinessname.com mail, I'll be in good shape. Yahoo has been of no help. iPhone "sends", but mail isn't saved and never reaches its destination. Can either of you share your outbound configurations with me?