Cannot access Yahoo mail on iPhone 5

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Cannot access Yahoo mail on iPhone 5

My iPhone 5 can no longer access my Yahoo mail for 3 days now. The Yahoo mail won't push and when I try to update it in my mailbox I get the message "Cannot Get Mail. The connection to the server failed." I tried deleting my Yahoo mail and adding it back, but still have the same problem. I tried changing my Yahoo pasword, but this did not help. I tried adding my Gmail mail to my iPhone and this works fine, no problems. This problem happened the same day that Yahoo made a major change to their email program. I update to IOS 7 about 10 days ago. I can access my Yahoo mail on my iPhone via the web with no problem.

I have browsed some of the forums and done searches on this problem, but have seen much evidence of this problem occurring recently to anyone else. There seems to have problems like this in the past, but not much lately.

Thanks for you Help,

Ken.....

iPhone 5, IOS 7.0.2, Verizon Wireless

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Oct 12, 2013 6:15 AM

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Rudegar

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Oct 12, 2013 6:29 AM in response to Ken_44

I have something a bit like that with Yahoo often

both on ios and osx it just keep asking for password over and over again

and web access works fine so I'm guessing their imap or pop3 server is the issue

it's periodic so maybe it's when they are very busy

it's allways yahoo never have the issue with aol or gmail or hotmail

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Oct 12, 2013 7:54 AM in response to Ken_44

I have had this problem for 2 days, where my yahoo Inbox says it is updated, but hasn't, then gives me "Cannot connect to mail servier" error message. If I go to my various folders (other than inbox) they will all update.

Very frustrating. All other email accounts work fine and only the inbox in yahoo seems to have this problem.

If anyone figured out how to fix this, then let us know. Thanks

I'll try yahoo support forum next and see if they have anything on this.

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Ken_44 Author

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Oct 12, 2013 2:41 PM in response to Ken_44

The problem resolved itself. After 3 days of Yahoo mail not working, it is back online now. Thanks for the responses.

Ken....

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Oct 12, 2013 7:25 PM in response to Ken_44

yes, mine resolved itself today too. 🙂

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Oct 14, 2013 9:58 PM in response to SharCanada

And this morning I woke up to my entire inbox on my Iphone 4s IOS 7 empty and unable to load any email. Same problem back again

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Oct 14, 2013 9:59 PM in response to SharCanada

I thought it was resolved, it worked all day Sunday. Monday morning I woke up to no Yahoo inbox access. Problem isn't resolved after all. This is bad during a work week.

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