Wont verify my yahoo mail account

i go to add an account and i type my name, the account name, my password and it take 10-15 mins to verify and then says cannot verify? if you shoot me an email at southpoledude069@yahoo.com that would be great i will also try and check back here every so often.

Message was edited by: eckoman2300

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Posted on Sep 17, 2007 7:17 AM

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Sep 17, 2007 2:30 PM in response to eckoman2300

Try setting up your existing free Yahoo account on the iPhone as a Yahoo Push-IMAP account.

Go to Settings > Mail.

Select Add Account.

Select Y!Mail or the Yahoo Mail selection at the top.

Enter your Name, current Yahoo email address, current password for this account and your chosen description or account name for the account.

Not sure why you can't connect to YouTube - on occasion the same happens to me but I retry and all is well.

Sep 18, 2007 9:55 AM in response to Allan Sampson

I acquired the yahoo free email address about 7 weeks ago which is right after I bought my iPhone. Yes, I did select yahoo as the account type on the iPhone and just entered my user id and password and it verified my account and its worked fine ever since other than the push email doesnt work well. The only other place I access my free yahoo email is on my home pc using I.E. or Safari browser.

In fact I just right now created another free account just to test it out and I was able to set it up on my Iphone without a problem.

Sep 18, 2007 10:06 AM in response to Angelo921

Then what I indicated is true.

Yahoo provides a free Push-IMAP account for iPhone customers only that can be accessed with the iPhone's email client and via webmail using a browser ONLY. You cannot access your free Yahoo Push-IMAP account with another email client on any other computer or device.

The same for a standard free Yahoo account. Yahoo prevents accessing a standard free Yahoo account with any email client for U.S. residents.

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