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My yahoo account doesn't work any more !!! error imap.apple.mail.yahoo.com

Today I've wanted to check my email from yahoo and it appeared an error such as : "username or password incorect for imap.apple.mail.yahoo.com" . It's my iphone broken or it's a problem from YAHOO?
I have an IPHONE 3G version 2.2.0....

Message was edited by: mrjohnny

Dual core 2 duo, Windows Vista

Posted on Jun 6, 2009 4:44 AM

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Jun 6, 2009 5:23 PM in response to DieDante

i sure hope that it has no coincidence with 6/6/9 :))... no idea about the 3.0 ... I'm from Romania and here the Iphone it's not very spread aroud the country... It came into the romanian market last year but it's not very accesible.Thats why I am asking you guys what should we do? It's a problem between Apple and Yahoo ?

Jun 6, 2009 7:05 PM in response to mrjohnny

I've had my iPhone 3G for about seven months now and I haven't experienced a single problem with sending or receiving e-mail on it...until yesterday, June 6th.

I have two Yahoo accounts on my iPhone, and both seemed to be working fine yesterday morning and early afternoon. However, when I came to check my e-mail at about 16:30/17:00 (GMT) it just wasn't happening.

I tried resetting my iPhone, but that didn't sort the problem. So I deleted both my Yahoo accounts on the phone and tried setting up the accounts again. However, when I inputted the information and pressed save to verify the account, I was presented with the error message:

*Cannot Get Mail*
*The user name or password for "imap.apple.mail.yahoo.com" is incorrect.*

I've had these e-mail accounts for years, so I know the information I inputted was correct. And to confirm that I wasn't going mad, I inputted the details again several times and VERY carefully. However, I still got the same error message every time.

The TwitterFon and Facebook apps were still updating on my iPhone, so the Internet connection seemed to be OK. With this in mind, I tried adding my GoogleMail account (which wasn't on my iPhone) to see if that would work...and it did! I've never been so happy to see an e-mail account verified!

Judging by everyone else's experience with this problem, I'm sort of happy that it seems to be a Yahoo thing and not a "my iPhone is fu*ked" thing. Still, as my Yahoo account is my primary e-mail account, I hope they can get this annoying problem sorted soon.

Jun 6, 2009 11:25 PM in response to Toots34

Here's a quick thought.

If this is affecting the UK (& some of Europe) can I ask are your email accounts native Yahoo addresses ie @yahoo.co.uk etc.. Or are they @yahoo.com

All three of mine are @yahoo.com

Just wondering if everyone is the same as me and perhaps that is the main reason.. Is anyone with an @yahoo.co.uk being affected?

My yahoo account doesn't work any more !!! error imap.apple.mail.yahoo.com

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