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Yahoo! email not pushing

Having problems recieving my yahoo email on my iPhone 4 after installing iOs 5. It sends emails (I sent test emails to my other email accounts on my phone and they went through) Just my yahoo email not coming in. I've tried everything I can think of .... help?

iPhone 4, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 6:52 AM

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Oct 14, 2011 6:29 AM in response to philfred

Exactly! I've been whining about this yahoo issue for awhile now. The intermittent problems are constantly annoying, ;). weird sentence I know. LOL. But seriously, this has been on for me intermittently for months! Things not appearing in the sent box, orders of messages incorrect, and unable to send messages. It is quite annoying!! And now I wonder about the new iPhone I just ordered. Why has this not been fixed since this has been a known issue for months?

Oct 14, 2011 6:34 AM in response to MissAndiB

I'm having the same problem and I can't load my email from my Yahoo account later than Sept 22nd and I tried many different things like delete and reinstall the account and so far no joy at all. Very frustrating... I thought changing for this ios 5 would be a great thing and now I see it is not. I want my yahoo email on my iphone 4 otherwise I don't want to use apple products anymore if we are going to be held hostage with this new icloud idea! Anyone know what should i do? thanks

Oct 14, 2011 7:45 AM in response to MissAndiB

I fixed Yahoo Mail on my 3GS with iOS 5: In Settings, "Mail, Contacts, Calendars", I reduced "Show" to "50 Recent Messages"


It had been set to "200 Recent Messages"


I also have an Exchange and MobileMe account setup on the phone.


I guess that there is not enough memory or something with iOS 5 on some devices to hold 200 Recent Messages from multiple accounts.


Hope this helps!

Oct 14, 2011 8:50 AM in response to MissAndiB

I am having same issues as above. hour on phone with apple support lead me to restoring phone, which made me refresh everything back to status in middle of august😠, so I had to reinstall a lot of things. Reset all passwords to wireless networks which they said it wouldn't do after I told them that it did the last time I had to do this. I have reinstalled my yahoo mail account several times as well as changing the push/fetch settings multiple times. Apple finally tried to tell me that they have given me every possible troubleshooting idea and that it might be a problem with the hardware and that I might need to replace the phone (3GS), however, everything was working fine before the software upgrade. They then told me to contact Yahoo, who apparently has no customer support since all of their phone numbers send you to an automated line as well as redirect you to their "Help" page on the website. Yahoo has some pretty terrible business practices. If it is true that only their plus version works with ios 5 then they failed as well. My mail gets everything from sept 21st and one email from oct 6. so very weird.

Oct 14, 2011 5:15 PM in response to MissAndiB

I was having issues with Yahoo email not pushing. I kind of got it fixed. I've narrowed down my problem to always having the mail app running in the backround. Before iOS 5 I would always close all my apps from multitasking and my emails would still push.


After updating to iOS 5, my emails were not pushing. I tried deleting the account from my iPhone 3GS, then re-adding it. Also hard resets and toggling the push switches.


After annoying my wife asking her to send countless test emails, I realized they were only getting pushed with my mail app running in the background (not being closed in multitasking).


I would like to have Mail closed and still getting pushed because I'm kind of OCD like that, but for now this will have to do.


By the way, I don't have E-Mails in my Notification Center. That's the next thing I'm going to test to see if that has any affect.

Oct 15, 2011 5:35 AM in response to MissAndiB

I had a similar problem with ios 5 and yahoo mail: no emails from the last month, and no pushing. I tried San Fran Dave's suggestion and reduced the number of emails to 50, but it didn't work. Then I did a hard restart, and all of a sudden the missing emails came back and push worked again. I tried increasing number of emails to 100, but it stopped working again; reducing to 50 and quitting the mail program fixed the problem again. Hope this helps.

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