iPhone, Yahoo, and alternate email addresses

You can't do the push email until June 2008.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/iphoneroadmap/

The iPhone lets you tap into mail protocols. Yahoo on their site has home grown coding that allows the features you talk about, but they aren't a protocol. Thus the iPhone has no options to let you use another providers home built options. So the short answer is, there isn't really anything you can do. You send mail over a protocol and that protocol is just what it is, send via that account.

Click on settings, then mail then default account. You can then choose what account is default. That account is the one it sends e-mails thru.

This isn't what the OP is asking about. In Yahoo on the web, you can setup the mail client there to send from another account. You can setup Yahoo to send from another POP account. So when you check your Yahoo mail you can send from lets say ones personal domaiain account (or some other account).

He wants that on the iPhone when he gets his yahoo mail that it will send from an account he has setup on Yahoo. Even if he set up the same account on the iPhone (eg: his other account) when reading a Yahoo email, sending from it (replying) will reply from Yahoo (not the default on the phone). Default on the phone is only for when starting an email from some other means (eg: email address in SMS, or from the contacts screen or from mailto: link on web page).

Andy,

Excellent question. I have been searching for a few days now to see how to do this as well. In fact, I PAY for Yahoo Small Business Web/E-mail Hosting. However, there is no way to get that account set up on the iPhone as a Yahoo "pushed" address. Only a Yahoo FREE e-mail account allows that. Seems backwards, no? So, I have forwarded mail from my paid account to my free Yahoo address and that works fine on the iPhone. But, with no ability to change the Reply-To, the messages I send from my iPhone look like they come from my free address, not the paid one with my company domain name.

I'm willing to live without the push for now. Can you provide the details (server names, etc) for how you set up the Yahoo account in the "Other" category?

BTW, the reason I'm going through this exercise is a separate problem with the Mail client on the iPhone. I had set up POP access on the iPhone for my company e-mail address. However, I got frequent occurrences of "This Message Has Not Been Downloaded From the Server." It's a known issue with no resolution as yet. I figured the Yahoo IMAP access could prevent that annoyance for now.

Thanks for your assistance.

Steve

Andy,

Greatly appreciate your fast, detailed responses!

My original iPhone setup used POP access to my paid Yahoo account. I kept having the other issue I mentioned previously, so I'm looking for an alternative.

The GMail one may do it. Do you know if setting up a Reply-To in GMail's web client will carry over to messages sent from the GMail account using the iPhone? (Yahoo on the iPhone did not do so.)

Steve

Andy,

Success!

I had originally neglected to follow your instruction regarding the "Address" field when setting up GMail as an "Other" account." So, even though I changed the "Reply-To" in GMail's web interface, messages sent via my iPhone were still showing up as being sent from the Gmail address.

Once I made that "Address" field the same as my business e-mail, it worked like a charm.

So, although we can't get Push this way (the original issue you needed solved), you have helped me resolve a different problem (I hope). It's still too soon to tell, but I think IMAP will prevent that annoying "This message has not been downloaded from the server."

For that, I am grateful.

Hopefully, the advent of 3rd party apps and the major software upgrade in a few months will resolve your issue and many others.

I'll keep my eyes peeled and let you know if I see anything that might help you.

Thanks again,

Steve

Hi - I've been using this set up with my life-time university alumni email address for months, but since yesterday it hasn't been working.

Does anybody know if Yahoo changed their requirement to have the Yahoo email address included as the reply-to address? Whatever the case, I didn't change any of my settings but the setup that Andy describes is no longer working for me!

Anyone else have this problem?

I had to Add a Mail Account to my Yahoo! Plus account (my alumni forwarding address) and set it as the default. Now all works beautifully from my iPhone. (Keeping my fingers crossed that nothing else changes...)

clarkkent26,

The iPhone has supported Yahoo PUSH email since it was first released in 2007. iPhone 2.0 update adds push options for additional services.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.