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Since iOS 8.1.2 My Yahoo mail has stopped working, any help please, but don't get too technical

My old ipad2 yahoo mail has stopped working the last update was Monday (as the bottom of inbox says anyway). This has happened since I updated to iOS 8.1.2. Can anyone help me please, not too technical as I'm not a computer programmer lol. Or does anyone know if Apple are doing anything about this problem, as I see it's happening to other device. Many thanks for reading this

iPad 2, iOS 8

Posted on Dec 19, 2014 4:39 AM

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Dec 19, 2014 5:46 AM in response to isschnyy

paul


FIRST - consider that your email address is your username for your AppleID. I personally would not want that. If you want to change that, let us know.


NEXT - did you upgrade from iOS 7.x OR from iOS 8.x?


If from iOS 7.x, one user found this semi- useful:

http://www.emailquestions.com/yahoo-mail/9070-manually-setup-yahoo-mail-account- iphone-using-imap.html


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Dec 19, 2014 7:36 AM in response to isschnyy

Yahoo is perpetually messing with their servers. And if your mail is on the server they're fiddling with, you'll have issues.

But since you're issues have been going on for more than a week, it's likely it won't resolve on itself.

I'd go into the settings, mail, contacts and calendars and delete your mail account, exit out, go back in and re-add your yahoo mail info and see if that clears it up.

Dec 23, 2014 10:54 AM in response to Skydiver119

My Yahoo email has also mysteriously stopped working (not pushing) since updating to iOS 8.1.2. I actually installed the 8.1.2 over a week+ back, and email was working fine until this past Friday/Sat (Dec 19, 20) when I noticed it stopped pushing, so this seems to me to be more related to something on Yahoo's end changing as Skydiver119 indicates above. I've also updated to the 8.2 beta (developer release) and still not working for me.

Dec 29, 2014 8:16 AM in response to isschnyy

Here's what I found after talking with Apple support - somewhere in your inbox is a message that has a corrupt header. When you go to sync via iOS mail, it gets to that header and bombs. The solution is to login to Yahoo mail via the web interface and create a 'tempInbox' or similar folder and move all your inbox messages there. At this point, your inbox should begin syncing again with iOS mail just fine. Next, you can start to move messages from tempInbox back to your real inbox to see which one is bad, or just leave them in temp forever and move forward with your 'new' inbox.

Dec 29, 2014 11:17 AM in response to fosteraa

My problem was and still is yahoo mail not pushing. Would not fetch if I set it to that either. I cleaned up the inbox, deleted the account on device, added it again and still no push. Same thing happens on 4 devices. If I go in to the mail app it gets my mail. Very frustrating, was hoping that what they told you would work for me.

Dec 30, 2014 9:03 AM in response to fosteraa

fosteraa wrote:


Here's what I found after talking with Apple support - somewhere in your inbox is a message that has a corrupt header. When you go to sync via iOS mail, it gets to that header and bombs. The solution is to login to Yahoo mail via the web interface and create a 'tempInbox' or similar folder and move all your inbox messages there. At this point, your inbox should begin syncing again with iOS mail just fine. Next, you can start to move messages from tempInbox back to your real inbox to see which one is bad, or just leave them in temp forever and move forward with your 'new' inbox.

Thank you for posting this -- first helpful comment I have found in 4 days. Been having issues with Yahoo Mail on my iPhone 5S and this work around seems to have cleared it up.

Dec 30, 2014 9:21 AM in response to whyisdaddyangry

IknowWhyYouAreAngry, daddy


I couldn't agree more... as a matter of fact, wouldn't it have been helpful to you IF the OP - isschnyy - had marked fosteraa's post as SOLVED like I suggested to isschnyy in a post that was removed because it was somehow deemed as ME fishing for points? I cannot envision a universe where my suggestion that someone mark a post solved that IS NOT MINE being construed as a Terms of Use violation.


A nice balloon like this

User uploaded file

next to a thread title in a forum list or search result is a dead giveaway that there is likely a SOLUTION present inside.


Go figger.


Feliz Año Nuevo

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Dec 31, 2014 9:52 AM in response to isschnyy

Same problem here.


Honestly, although fosteraa's answer may seem a valid fix for the issue, it's clear for me that the problem began after 8.1.2 and, instead of messing with hundreds of emails, Apple should simply fix that because the problem exists in their app. Simply that.


By the way, the trick hasn't worked here. No push even after moving my messages to a new folder and having the inbox empty.

Dec 31, 2014 11:13 AM in response to aqmaciel

believe it or not, Apple has eyes (and ears) in ASC. If there is to be a fix for this issue in a subsequent version, it will be a fix, in the version, with no fanfare - not a workaround, which is what we have here from fosteraa's post.


Maybe with some added detail of your continuing travails, we can help... or perhaps fosteraa can tell us how he contacted the fine example of Apple's Support Specialists that he "talked to" - too techie for AppleCare methinks, but maybe not

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