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Anyone else think that Yahoo Push slow/unreliable?
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I actually think that the push email from Yahoo works surprisingly WELL. I hope you guys added the "imap.apple.mail.yahoo.com" in the adavanced settings of your Yahoo email account under settings.
I get messages within 5-10 seconds even before they show up on my notebook! Its definitely worth having!
Cheers.
I get messages within 5-10 seconds even before they show up on my notebook! Its definitely worth having!
Cheers.
5 mins.
23 mins.
between two test emails...
For me I am not convinced but have no doubt it will improve.
23 mins.
between two test emails...
For me I am not convinced but have no doubt it will improve.
It works fine for me. I get emails within seconds. I even had my ISP email address forwarded to my yahoo email address and it works just as good. I have yet to test it on EDGE. I am not sure how quick it will be.
Once I added "imap.apple.mail.yahoo.com" to Settings > Advanced > Yahoo account > IMAP Path Prefix it started receiving emails almost instantly. Literally within seconds.
My only issue now is that I don't want to use my yahoo address as my "From" address on email sent from the iPhone. Anyone have any suggestions for changing that?
Just did the Imap thing. I guess I thought it would setup automatically. 
I will give it a whirl in the morning! BTW, I too was experiencing erradict times from instant to 20 mins. From/To a yahoo account.
I will give it a whirl in the morning! BTW, I too was experiencing erradict times from instant to 20 mins. From/To a yahoo account.
My Yahoo works well, although I've seen the headers get out of sync with the message body a few times.
I tried the imap setting as suggested above. When I did, I lost visibility of all of my folders in my Yahoo account so I was unable to file any email received in my in box. Has anyone else seen this?
Once I removed the prefix setting, I received visibility back of all my Yahoo email folders.
Once I removed the prefix setting, I received visibility back of all my Yahoo email folders.
My only complain with my Blackberry was that I never found a way where I could request to check e-mail right away. The lag between when I would receive an e-mail on the server and when it would go to my Blackberry, for a regular POP account, was never anything approaching instantaneous.
I owned a Sidekick II, and while the push wasn't as fast as the Blackberry, I felt confident knowing that if it had e-mail on the server, and I manually checked it, the phone would download the e-mail that was there.
The iPhone, as of now, lives up to neither of those phones in that department, and I'm sure there have been numerous other e-mail phones that surpass it in its current state.
Not that I don't love it. But I am looking forward to the first software update.
Yahoo push works perfectly for me. I'm curious - for those of you who don't have it working, how did you initially set up your account? Sync from your computer, or did you go through the iPhone interface and pick Yahoo out of the list of providers? I did the latter, and it works great. I'm guessing it has pre-configured settings that makes it work, and if you sync from your computer it just defaults to standard POP or something.