suzyfromredlands wrote:
No Mac. For my mail acccounts I use Yahoo and Outlook. My husband does not have a smartphone and finds (as I do) that some mail only goes to my iphone.
suzy...........
The only Apple product in the mix is the iPhone. You and your husband have a PC (Two?). Outlook on the PC is not responsible for routing your emails - to itself or to the iPhone - it is YahooMail, somehow.
Q: Do NOT put your email address here, BUT is this all related to the SAME email address? Do you & your husband share it? Do you have unique addresses? How many total email addresses are involved between you and your husband? <- email forwarding involved?
Q: Is it just one sender's messages misbehaving?
The answers may shed a new light on your issues.
Begin your investigation at YMail. If this is a NEW behavior, it is possible that somehow something changed regarding your Yahoo Mail preference settings. Human or some change in YMail (VERY possible).
YMail has many filters going on prior to an email even getting to your Inbox on YMail server - I am sure that YMail's method of filtering takes place "on the way" TO your Inbox - SPAM filtered messages, for instance, never gets to the Inbox folder or Inbox sub-folders. Apparently the SPAM folder somehow is not considered a part of the Inbox foldering tree by YMail. Entourage Outlook and iMail (and every Email Client used on every platform) retrieves messages from your Inbox on the server. I use Microsoft Entourage (Outlook's baby brother not allowed to play with knives) and it is clear that Entourage only retrieves what ends up OUTSIDE the SPAM folder, even though it visually appears to be an Inbox sub-folder (I have few filters routing emails to YMail folders - yet I still get those in Entourage).
Regarding the SPAM folder issue in particular, you might be worth a look in it in the Web Mail Client for those misbehaving messages. It might give you a clue. I have found that some emails get flagged by YMail as SPAM that are NOT - password reset email just this morning and in particular "all Failure to Deliver" messages from a SPECIFIC @domain.com. Could be your sender's @domain.com could be an issue.
My best guess at this mis-behavior is that a YMail filter is being applied to certain messages.
Yahoo Mail is the only common denominator, regardless of you folk's shared or unique email addresses. The iMail is not at fault nor is Outlook since they only retrieve from accounts you have set up in them. If you use the WebMail client, iMail or Outlook and read a message it is still in the server Inbox and the other clients are synced to get all messages that are 'unread' by it. i.e., read a message in iMail and Outlook doesn't know it has been read at all.
best of luck
CCC
