Yahoo mail on WiFi

[lebron212]

My yahoo mails works fine on 3g/edge but it never works when i'm on wifi. Anyone know why this might be happening?

[_TheOne_]

There's some info here.
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...ing-wifi-3740/


I was wondering about this a few days ago myself and made a post. As a former sidekick user, i recall that yahoo and t-mobile had an agreement of sorts And that is why t-mobile customers can utilize pop3 access. It makes sense that when you leave the t-mobile network and start using wifi that the service drops. Hope this helps.

[lebron212]

Thanks for the help!!

[g15554]

I've had the same problem and it has literally driven me bonkers. I've called T-Mobile G1 support 4 or 5 times and NO ONE seems to 1) even understand the problem, and 2) definitely has no answer.

I really can't believe that only a few people are having this problem. The whole reason that I bought the phone was to be able to use a WIFI connection when available. Turning OFF WIFI to check my email, defeats the whole stupid purpose? Right?

[shanaandpete]

Same damn problem. Not a great solution, but works much better now. Upgraded to yahoo plus mail. $20 a year, makes the email not lose its connection when just on regular network. Still cant get it with wifi, but at least when the wifi is off it goes back to its regular setting. Use yahoo mobile mail, and just check in when using wifi. Not a great solution, but better than nothing.

[joelangley]

I just updated MailDroid to make yahoo work over wifi. You can find it here: https://slideme.org/application/maildroid-096-beta

[Wonsanim]

I just updated MailDroid to make yahoo work over wifi. You can find it here: https://slideme.org/application/maildroid-096-beta

Thanks for the suggestion

[incredible]

I've figured out a way to do this, but it ain't pretty. It does, however, work.

1. suck it up and get a yahoo plus account for 20 bucks (relax, i don't work for yahoo. if i hadn't been using yahoo mail for 5 years i'd drop 'em)

2. get a gmail account.

3. go to settings on your gmail account. go to accounts and import. go to check mail using POP3. Click add pop3 email account. add your yahoo plus account (google the settings)

4. gmail will now ping your yahoo account about once every 10 mins and feed your yahoo mail to you, which means you can get the gmail app for your droid and get your yahoo mail regardless of whether you have wifi activated. you can even set up gmail to send replies from gmail labeled yourlogin@yahoo.com. one lousy thing is that gmail will now try to import ALL of your mail from yahoo. 200 emails at a time. I had 6000 plus. what i did to avoid this was to get thunderbird for firefox and archive all my yahoo emails locally and then deleted my yahoo inbox - AFTER I'd archived them.

i know, it sucks, it costs 20 bucks etc. but as far as i can tell, it's the only solution to using wifi / android/ yahoo / and still getting notifications.

[Chihuahua]

Yahoo has a mobile site and mail works well with my Hero. It won't automatically come to your phone though, but at least if you access through the browser it's free.

It won't work with the Opera browser though. Something to do with the way it routes and compresses data I think...


PETE

[pzap]

I fixed this on my Samsung Galaxy by changing Security type to 'SSL' under the incoming settings for the mail account..