My iPhone deletes my yahoo email on its own! (Disappearing emails)

I experienced the same problem today. An email vanished without a trace from my Yahoo! Plus inbox, on my iPhone. I saw it there (marked as unread) then jumped over to my .mac inbox. Moments later I returned to my Yahoo! Plus inbox and watched the email almost instantly disappear on its own before I had a chance to read it. Can't find it anywhere....not in the trash and not on the server.

I am waiting to hear back from Yahoo. Apple did not have any record of anyone else having this problem.

My iPhone is also deleting emails on its own. In my case, the emails seem to be disappearing from folders that I moved them to on my iPhone.

This weekend I know that I moved a number of emails from the InBox to several of my folders on my iPhone, it seemed to move fine. I could see the email in those folders on my iPhone. Here's the odd part: when I opened the folders the next day, and it connected and updated, I saw the emails disappear right in front of my eyes, and the emails were lost.

It was almost like under some circumstances the folder connections are automatically overwriting the iPhone's contents with the contents from Yahoo's server rather than seeing that new contents moved into the folder on the iPhone and synching them back with the server.

I just tried it, and of course, it didn't overwrite my email. On the other hand, immediately after moving the messages on the iPhone, they were not visible in the folder. The messages were only visible upon reconnecting in the folder.

Very strange...

I have had this issue multiple times. How do we get a response from either Apple or Yahoo to acknowledge this serious problem.

I just had this happen as well. It was a mail I'd already read, and I watched it vanish right before my eyes when I returned to the yahoo mail inbox on the iPhone. No other client could have interacted with my yahoo account between the time the email was received and when it vanished, nor did I even visit the yahoo mail web interface, so it seems that it's surely a bug.

I noticed same problem. It is third time it happens to me.
Just lost couple of important emails. They appeared on iphone, but when i whent reading then on yahoo web i could not find them. Looked at iphone mail list and they gone from there too. Serious scary bug.

I've had this happen several times now and it is very frustrating. My yahoo email show up fine in my computer Mail but I've have had at least 6 occiasons where my Yahoo mail has disappeared from my iPhone. It's as if everything is erased and it just starts over. There's no rhyme or reason as to how many emails I have to have in my inbox before this happens. Could be less than 10 or more than 30. Doesn't matter. One day the emails are there and then they're just gone. Have heard of others having Iphone erase emails on their computer but that hasn't been a problem for me. Does anyone know if this is a Yahoo problem or an Apple problem?

I'm having same problems. Yahoo mail disappearing randomly. One commonality I have noticed is that it definitely will disappear if I move the mail to another folder while on my iPhone. Hope Apple answers this bug soon.

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i've been having the same problem ever since i started using my yahoo! mail account w/ my iphone. it seems that there is a bug in the imap service b/n the server and the phone. something doesn't go right and the message vanishes into thin air.

i contacted yahoo! about it and all they could do was recover the account to the previous backup which would delete any new email that was received after the incident. that was even worse. i thought it was a fluke but emails have been disappearing left and right. even some sent emails were never received.

i've since stopped using yahoo! mail and reverted back to gmail. imap is great but not if it's deleting emails. hope gmail gets their act together and offers free imap or if .mac lowers it's price

Same thing has happened to me once (that I know of). I had an email in my Yahoo Inbox. All of a sudden it deleted itself. Also, a buddy of mine told me about one of his emails deleting itself, too.

I wish Gmail had "folders" and push!!

I have seen this deletion in the past few days also, and it does not appear to be totally random. All the messages that have disappeared were messages I had moved form one folder to another at least once.

1. A message I moved to trash by mistake, that I then moved back to the inbox, was deleted the next time Yahoo emptied the trash folder (even though the message was in the inbox now).

2. A message put in the "Bulk" folder by mistake - that I moved to the Inbox - was later deleted by Yahoo.

I have used Yahoo mail for 9 years and never had a mystery deletion, so it is not a Yahoo mail-only issue - it looks like it is something about how Yahoo has the mail set to sync with the iphone account.

It certainly seems like moving the messages on the iphone makes it more likly to get this deletion bug.

-Brian

Whew, thanks for the confirmation, fellas! I thought I was losing my mind when Yahoo! emails went poof right before my eyes.

Yes, I am seeing this as well. Makes me wonder what I've missed?!?? A great deal from a Nigerian Banker? Oh well, I'll be disabling the iPhone's access to Yahoo mail now.

just want to chime in here... i have the same problem with yahoo...
poof emails disappear before my very eyes...

OMG..thanks so much.

I've lost 3-4 critical mails and they are just gone.

Is there no way to set things so mail stays on the server? At least if it is gone from the iPhone it won't be gone. My blackberry worked that way.

This *****. In one case it has cost me dearly with a client.

DW

I would highly advice against using the iPhone for business critial applications. The iPhone email client, and the Yahoo mail service are not ready for prime time.

My humble opinion, of course. 🙂

I've used yahoo for biz critical stuff for years. No issues. Same with Blackberry synched to yahoo.

But this is different and I guess I didn't see the disclaimer from Apple saying don't use it for business.