It’s been about a month since acquiring an iPhone. For the most part it’s been a splendid little device. It’s allowed the opening of a new a trail blazing section here at the House called Thoughts From the Throne.
There are the usual annoyances, AT&T’s Edge Network is rather slow, and the ‘keyboard’ is a bit tiny for grown-up sized fingers.
The one thing that has been the most annoying is randomly disappearing emails when using Yahoo email. It seems to occasionally just loose an email. Once you press Send it just goes “Poof”.
It doesn’t end up in the Draft of Sent folder, it’s just gone. Which can be extremely frustrating especially after laboring over the miniature keys to eek out an important message to your loved one.
A little investigation revealed that this is a known issue by both Apple and Yahoo. Others report loosing emails as well. Some have issues with the IMAP push email not pushing like its ‘pose to and requiring a manual check to retrieve messages. Some experience emails disappearing once they have been moved to a folder. It just ain’t right.
To date there seems to be no word from either Apple or Yahoo when this issue will be resolved.
Some of the suggested workaround include:
-Using the forward feature of Yahoo email to forward to another POP account or Gmail.
-Upgrading to Yahoo’s Premium service and using the POP setting to retrieve email.
1 response so far ↓
1 Jessica // Jan 3, 2008 at 9:34 am
I was having the same problem, but the fix is relatively easy. Your account name on the iPhone has to exactly match what is listed on the Yahoo account. I was using my first name in the “Name” field when I should have been using my Yahoo account name. (It is case-sensitive so that has to be taken into consideration.) Once I got that fixed, I was up and running.
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