Random Deletion of email on Yahoo from iPhone

I have the same iPhone and the same (or very similar) issue with Yahoo Mail.
Today I noticed that set of messages are making it to my iPhone but are not being deliverd to my computer. They are then, somehow, deleted from the Yahoo mail server. Can the iPhone request deletion of messages from the email server. If yes, where is this setting?

Thanks.

This issue is why I stopped using Yahoo Mail a year ago. Maybe five percent of my mail would just disappear. I actually saw it happen a couple of times: I'd Refresh my mail page, and an email would just vanish. It wouldn't be in Trash, it would just be gone.

I didn't bother to even try to talk to Yahoo about it, as there was no rhyme or reason, and I of course could not duplicate it on demand.

So now I use Mac Mail, and am quite happy.

I'm currently testing whether or not it's just the "in box" etc. from which e-mails are deleted. I created a new folder on the Yahoo account called "Keep Mail," and I have stashed a couple of e-mails there as a test when iPhone gets them.

So far, so good.

Don't know if this is something that might be useful to you or not.

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.

Can anyone else confirm that moving the messages makes it more likly to get this deletion bug?

-Brian

I'm having the same problem. It does seem totally random for me. I've seen mails that are in the list as it's checking and then they just vanish. I've lost quite a few valuable e-mails. I'm going to have to turn off Yahoo mail on te iPhone because I can't trust it. I have never had this problem before using the iPhone.

Gmail doesnt push like yahoo does when its actually working right.

No, it doesnt, but it doesnt randomly delete your emails either. GMail has been 100% reliable on the iPhone since day one, its free, without ads, and works from anywhere. I'd rather pull my email every 15 minutes than wait for push that may or may not come...

I've used Yahoo mail for many years and the issue of having emails randomly disappear started after I got the iPhone. The push mail feature that Yahoo offers is great when it works, but it's really hit and miss. I haven't tired synching contact with Yahoo yet because with all their mail sketchiness, I'm hesitant to risk losing my contact data.

A new issue popped up yesterday (august 11). Since Yahoo hasn't been pushing email for a while, I have to manually go and check it. When I go to my Yahoo inbox, the action icon (rotating wheel) spins in the top left to let me know that something is happening and at the bottom of my screen it says "checking for mail..." The spinning wheel stops and my list of messages refreshes (supposedly, it's really not, I just see that stupid "load 3 more messages" or whatever), but the message that says "Check for mail...." stays at the bottom of my screen with its little spinning wheel icon and never goes away. It's like it's hung up or something. No matter how many times I go in and out of Yahoo mail on my iPhone, that message stays at the bottom.

Now a new issue. I deleted a message from my Yahoo inbox on my iPhone. When I go to my inbox in Yahoo on the computer it shows the message I deleted from my phone. When I click the header to view the message, I get an error saying "There was a problem viewing your message". So, it appears the message isn't really there, but the header remains in my inbox on the web version of Yahoo. Everything is totally out of sync across the board it seems.

I believe this problem of email reliability is limited to Yahoo's IMAP offering, which is only offered to free accounts. Their POP service (which is paid) is more reliable. It must have something to do with their IMAP offering and they way they are authenticating to make sure any non-iPhone users do not use IMAP.

(I agree: never a problem with Yahoo-POP before in many years)

I have the same configuration: Yahoo-POP on my desktop machine and Yahoo-IMAP on the iPhone. I am absolutely positive: in the past several days, Yahoo has deleted some of my mails.

==> Could it be a problem introduced with the iPhone 1.0.1 update?

Apparently, all the deleted mails had been read and (possibly but I'm not quite so sure) had first been read on the iPhone. Also, I have been using the iPhone more often in the recent days, and started to delete mails from the iPhone itself more frequently too (which I wasn't doing much before).

Both the iPhone and the desktop machine are configured to never remove the deleted messages but Yahoo still deleted them.

==> I am now reconfiguring the iPhone so that the "Deleted Mailbox" points to a separate mailbox of my own called "iPhone Trash", instead of pointing to the regular Trash folder. We'll see if it solves the problem...

I have the same issue, thats why I finally gave up today on yahoo mail. I'm back with gmail.

Gmail doesnt push like yahoo does when its actually working right.

Also, no folder in gmail. I hate the way it's set up personally, and am sick of hearing "use gmail instead".