AT&T email woes break Apple Mail

It's a Yahoo problem. Yahoo's mail servers have had issues for years that have gone unresolved. It's only gotten worse since Yahoo went bankrupt and was sold off in pieces.

Your best bet is to switch email providers. Microsoft, Google, and Apple all offer free email. Pick one, or pretty much any other provider you like... I wouldn't expect Yahoo to fix anytime in the foreseeable future, considering these issues have been reported now for over 20 years.

AT&T subcontracted their mail to Yahoo last summer, and it has not worked right since. The only solution is to use webmail, as suggested.

The problem has nothing to do with Apple; it's strictly a matter of Yahoo's incompetence.

rbrylawski wrote:

Am I missing something? I've not had any Yahoo mail issues using the Mail App on my iPhone or iPad.

You might be the only one. But this is an issue with AT&T mail accounts hosted by Yahoo, not Yahoo email addresses. And I've seen plenty of complaints about Yahoo mail in the forum, hence my first sentence. It works better with the Yahoo email app; for one thing, Push works with the app, but not with Apple's mail client.

AT&T has been subcontracting their email to Yahoo almost since they started offering residential Internet services. They were using Yahoo for email back in the 90's when the only option was dial up... It was cr@p then too.

Yahoo has literally hundreds of servers in their farm. They tend to get out of sync. If you're unlucky enough to be connected to one that's borked, your mail client will reject your credentials. Sometimes, deleting and re-adding the account fixes it. Often, you have to do that from a different network in order to get routed to a different server... assuming the new one isn't borked as well. In virtually every case, web-mail still works fine as they use different servers for authentication.

You might be missing the fact that these issues are apparently only affecting AT&T email accounts. I’ve had an email account almost 10 years with the address name@ameritech.net and recently both myself and my wife’s account have been wonky with Mail. In fact last week both accounts were down for hours. My wife was complaining this morning that she couldn’t delete anything, that the deleted email would pop right back up.

Johnsond wrote:

Thank you for confirming the explanation.

It does, however, have something to do with Apple. It is their application which is sometimes/always incapable of handling AT&T email accounts.

No. It doesn't have ANYTHING to do with Apple. It's not the Apple device or app that's the problem. The problem is on the server side at Yahoo.

No issues whatsoever using my Yahoo mail in the Apple Mail app on AT&T.

Am I missing something? I've not had any Yahoo mail issues using the Mail App on my iPhone or iPad.

Thanks. I don't use it through AT&T. AT&T is my cellular provider, but I'm just a Yahoo Mail user. I guess that's the issue. For me, Yahoo mail has been stable.

Thanks. I guess I'll just knock wood and count myself lucky for not having issues.