Yahoo Bizmail POP emails

hey all;

wondering the same thing. we use bizmail at our office, and we also travel alot, so iphones were purchased to handle this...

but after setting up the bizmail, it doesnt work as well as expected. new "test" emails never showed up, but week old junk mail did....

thats another question, how to handle junk mail on iphone... for another thread i suppose.

anyone having good luck with bizmail on iphone?

Please don't take this the wrong way, but why did you choose a first generation, revision A product to deal with your every day business when you're on the road?

How many companies adopted Windows Vista the day it came out (we are only just migrating to XP)?

How many companies adopted the iPhone the day it came out (our IT department refuse to even evaluate a product that's so young)?

It would have been better to use a proven solution for business critical needs until such time that the iPhone is ready for the enterprise imo...

I agree with this seemingly harsh but very accurate assessment. You dont get a version 1.0 of ANYTHING (Apple included) for a critical business application. The iPhone will get there - eventually. But if business critical application is what you need TODAY, there are far more appropriate options than the iPhone.

Well, you asked for a suggestion, so dont be offended when it is given. Let me rephrase it - return the iPhone, go back to your TMobile Dash device, and come back when the kinks are worked out.

Better?

instead of the lecture, how about helping a fellow apple user out... thats what the forums are for... not for you to tell me what i should have done...

fact is, the iPhone is perfect for what we do. perhaps i should have phrased me request differently. i have a personal iPhone, my bosses each have one as well (as their personal phone)... however they/we do travel enough that it would be nice to get our yahoo bizmail on the iPhone..

this has nothing to do with 1.0 hardware. two requests for help/suggestions on how to get bizmail to work were asked in this thread... if you don't have an answer or any help, simply don't post.. end of story.

so, anyhoo... back to the actual topic. has anyone found a solution? thanks to all for any "real" help.

I have a Yahoo business account but decided to forward all my email to a GMail account because of reliability problems with Yahoo and the iPhone. Apparently, when you access the Yahoo pop server with the iPhone, it doesnt close out correctly, which leaves the connection open. If you try to access the account again from another computer before it times out (could be as much as 30 minutes), you get an error message, since it thinks another computer is already accessing the account.

Yahoo service has also been somewhat inconsistent since the iPhone launch. I can only speculate that it has something to do with the pressure of so many new accounts.

For Yahoo business, the servers used ti be pop.bizmail.yahoo.com and smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com. However, I just checked and found these instead:

Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.mail.yahoo.com
Use SSL, port: 995

Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Use SSL, port: 465, use authentication

Try those to see if they work any better. And remember, if you check your account with the iPhone, wait half an hour before you try to check with your PC.

thank you... that sounds promising... although, it seems to be half working.

now the problem is junk mail... my boss has over 12000 items in his inbox according to the iphone... and no real email gets through... its all junkmail.

any ideas on that one?

Many of the spam filters that Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail etc are based on Cartesian math. It is only through analysis (and user feedback) of massive volumes of email that you get half decent spam filtering.

Because of this, it is unlikely that the iPhone itself will ever offer a Spam facility beyond blocking domains you have flagged as evil/specific address/specific address patterns/bad words that are indicative of "spam" to you as a user.

I know Yahoo Plus offers spam protection: messages in the Bulk folder do not appear in a POP3 Inbox/appear in the respective folder in IMAP.

I do not know about Yahoo Bizmail but I hope the above might shed some light on why the iPhone itself is not best suited to spam filtering.