Yahoo! server unavailable error

I have a yahoo.com account and a rocketmail.com account, both via yahoo. I found this information on a yahoo board and it worked for both my accounts. I had to delete the account on the phone and set it backup in both cases.

Close the mail app on the iphone and go to a computer, sign in to your yahoo mailaccount and do the verification that it pops up. If there is no such thing that pops up then go back to your iphone and do the following:

1.) Delete the yahoo mail account on your iphone.

2.) Add mail account using "other" instead of "Yahoo!" and setup as IMAP account.

3.) Use the following information:

- username MUST include @yahoo.com at the end

- incoming server = imap.mail.yahoo.com

- outgoing server = smtp.mail.yahoo.com

- always retype your password

That works great if all you want is to pull your email. However, it does not work for Contacts and Calendars. You don't even have Contacts and Calendar option, so this is not really a solution to the problem.

Calendar solution that worked on my new Iphone 5:

1. settings

2. mail/contacts/calenmdars

3. add account

4. other

5. under "calendars"---add CalDAV account

6. server: caldav.caelndar.yahoo.com

7. username (your full yahoo email address)

8. Password (your yahoo password)

9. description

10. click next

the only other thing i had to do was manually change the color of the dot next to the Yahoo calendar item as it was the same color as my exchange calendar items.

I agree,

this all worked fine untill i had to change a password.

Doclorain i get the caldav password popping up every 2 seconds and had to delete it. No calendar or contacts is a big problem