Yahoo! email not pushing

Sure you can do that if you don't care about push. If you can't forward your mails you don't have much choice. I prefer it to push like its supposed to. I'll stick with forwarding until it's fixed by yahoo.

For those that need a more detailed explanation between "push" and "fetch", it is below. For those of you who know all about this and don't want more "not helpful" information, please ignore.

Yahoo mail supported "Push" which means that when an email message for you reached the Yahoo server, it was forwarded to your personal email account and at the same time "pushed" to the Yahoo email account on your Iphone. In my case that last process used to be so fast that I received messages on my Iphone before I saw them in my inbox on my computer.

With"fetch", the Yahoo email server does not automatically push messages to your Iphone. Instead, the Apple Iphone process, on a particular schedule (15 minutes, 30 minutes, or hourly) goes to the Yahoo server and fetches all of the "new" messages since it last fetched and sends them to your Iphone. Receiving them on your Iphone is exactly the same as Push in the way the message looks and what you hear. If you have set your phone to give you a beep or some sound notification when you get new mail, you will get that with both the push and fetch process.

In fact, fetch is the way Gmail works. Gmail does not support Push.

So, if you set your yahoo account to fetch messages every 15 minutes, you are not getting them instantly like you do with push, but you are still getting them on a relatively timely basis. And you will know when they come.

To make the change from push to fetch: in Settings, go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Under all of your email acounts there is a Fetch tab. Go to this and on the next page do the following: Set Push to Off. Then set Fetch to the schedule you want. Then click "Advanced". And on the next page you will see your Yahoo account and set it to Fetch.

The only problem with this is that if Push starts working again, you won't be able to tell on your Iphone. You will either have to read it on this Board, someone is bound to let us know. Or you can change your Yahoo account back to Push every once in a while, and see if it works.

Thanks for the explanation and I thought that was how it was supposed to work. But the fact is I am not getting any notification of new emails even when I have it set to fetch. That is what I don't understand. It will download the emails and when I open the app new emails are there but it gives me no sound or badge on the mail icon.

i just did an online chat with yahoo and found out that "this is a known Yahoo problem and our engineers are working on it at this time". unfortunately they were not able to provide any estimate as to when there would be a resolution. until then i guess we are stuck fetching.

I also sent Yahoo an inquiry to notify them of the problem, as this seems to be a Yahoo issue, not Apple. They said 'engineering is working on it.'

I'm having periodic issues of sending email as well. They keep going to the outbox, so I have to click on the outbox and force a send. I hope they fix this soon, it's quite annoying.

I agree with LaurieMackie - I think entire yahoo smtp server is down. Have not been able to send mail thru my iPhone since this afternoon. Have to change the "from" field to my gmail account t and it sends.

Still receive mail to my yahoo addresses (my paid and free accounts) but just can't sent thru their smtp service.

This is a spearate issue from the push issue

When is Yahoo going to get their act together.

Ridiculous.

Unfortunately I've come to the conclusion that Yahoo has no clue what they are doing. Their engineers have been "working on the solution" for over a week now and still nothing? Let's face it, if this EVER gets fixed it will be a miracle.

I just got my first push since I started having this problem. Even if it stops working again, at least Yahoo finally seems to be making progress. Woohoo!

Well I hope it keeps working for you but I got a push two days ago and nothing since.

I only got that one push this morning, hasn't worked since then. Still, I'll take it as a good sign.

Hi guys...

Been reading these posts for the last couple of weeks trying to figure out a solution. I went to another website and read a post that said to go into settings --> notifications --> mail --> and then turn on "notification center" and "badge app icon" and "show preview" and "view in lock screen" and I rebooted the phone and tested about 5 emails and all of them pushed. My yahoo mail is now pushing to my phone. I went back into the setting afterward it reboot and turned off "view in lock screen" because I don't like that feature. I hope this works for all of you guys!! Because I was really annoyed that my email wasn't pushing!

Good luck!!

I appreciate your posting what worked for you. However, my settings have always been set to what you suggest and I am not getting email pushed to my iphone. I got one pushed 2 days ago and none since. It has to be a problem on the yahoo side and not something with individual iphones that can be fixed on the phone. A few people have said they've talked to Yahoo and they admit as such. They say their engineers are working on it. But I contacted Yahoo via email and was told it was an AT&T problem and that I needed to contact AT&T for a solution. So I don't know what to think at this point. Apparently not everyone at Yahoo agrees on what to do. It is very frustrating. Please let us know if it continues to work for you. It might give other people something to try. Thanks for posting.

I got the email of your reply to the post pushed to my phone. So yes, it seems to be continuing to work. Try turning the settings off and restarting your phone and then turning them back on and restarting your phone again. I am not tech savvy at all so I don't know how mine started to work. All i know if that i did exactly what I posted before, which i had read on another discussion board, and it started to work.

I am now getting some pushed (maybe all have to check desktop) to verify. Hopefully this is a step in right direction.