# Can't receive Yahoo mail on iPhone

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 8, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-receive-yahoo-mail-on-iphone/436765 "2008-02-08T03:50:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-receive-yahoo-mail-on-iphone/436765/1 "2008-02-08T03:50:53Z")

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I’m having trouble receiving my Yahoo e-mail on my iPhone. Everything seems configured correctly. It shows my folders, and I can retrieve mail from the Bulk (spam) folder with no problem. However, when I go to the Inbox, it says it is downloading mail, and then … nothing. No error, no mail. I can hit “Download 25 More” as many times as I like. Each time it declares it is downloading the mail, then displays an empty inbox. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-receive-yahoo-mail-on-iphone/436765/2 "2008-02-08T14:57:08Z")

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I dunno, but it does more or less the same thing with Gmail as of the 1.1.3 software release. I get old mail - like from a month ago - but when I click "retrieve 25 more’ it does nothing.

I did a little research, and we aren’t the only ones having an issue.

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**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-receive-yahoo-mail-on-iphone/436765/3 "2008-02-08T17:21:16Z")

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Eliminate any unusual configurations:[ul][li]Make sure your iPhone is on firmware 1.1.3[/li][li]Go into the email preferences and remove the Yahoo mail entry you created.[/li][li]Create a fresh one, selecting Yahoo when offered by the iPhone. Provide your credentials and so forth.[/ul]You should now be at least back where you were: able to see folders and such.[/li]  
This should be risk free since Yahoo is push-enabled: you aren’t removing anything from the server until you tell the iPhone to trash a message.

Any weirdness beyond this point may be caused by connectivity issues; Edge has been having issues this week in parts of the country.  
You might wish to try over WiFi vs. Edge.