Is Yahoo! Mail the least reliable free email on iOS?

[Eug]

I use Windows and Linux systems as well, and I don't want my e-mail viewing habits to get stuck in Apple's walled garden. I doubt that Apple gives a damn what their webmail looks like on non Apple platforms.

iCloud Mail looks good on Windows. I assume it would be the same on Linux, because I use Firefox on Windows.

 

[manly]

This is actually a very common feature. In fact, most of the better email applications these days support this, regardless of the email service provider.

My problem right now with the Yahoo Mail app on iOS is I can't figure out how to turn this feature off, if possible at all. My wife much prefers having individual emails. She doesn't like the grouping by threads/conversations.

I'm stuck on Lion, but Mac Mail's threading sucks compared to years-old Gmail Web app.

It doesn't thread in your composed messages, just the received mail. So it's half the conversation unless you expand quoted text. And unlike Gmail, you can't collapse quoted text once expanded.

I can't speak for Yahoo Mail but I seriously question why people choose the native mobile app over Gmail's official app. The only plausible reason is unified Inbox with multiple providers.

I honestly thought Marissa Mayer would do a solid job at Yahoo but anytime I look at their mobile Web sites, it's a "bag of hurt."

 

[Eug]

I can't speak for Yahoo Mail but I seriously question why people choose the native mobile app over Gmail's official app. The only plausible reason is unified Inbox with multiple providers.

For one, the native app is, well, native. It's available everywhere in the OS.

It's stupid but the Yahoo! Mail app doesn't even populate the menus for sending say a web page mail link. CloudMagic does though, and doesn't have ads.

Maybe I'll set my wife up on CloudMagic and see what she thinks of it.

EDIT:

Nope. The app icon for CloudMagic doesn't seem to change. The app itself works fine, but no numbers of unread emails shows up on the badge icon. WTF.

 

[StinkyPinky]

I use outlook for email and onedrive for cloud storage. Works great on my iphone and macbook (and also my windows pc...which we should hope it does).

Outlook supports push and it works well, but I use fetch to save a bit of battery life (and it does help)

 

[JAG87]

For one, the native app is, well, native. It's available everywhere in the OS.

It's stupid but the Yahoo! Mail app doesn't even populate the menus for sending say a web page mail link. CloudMagic does though, and doesn't have ads.

Maybe I'll set my wife up on CloudMagic and see what she thinks of it.

EDIT:

Nope. The app icon for CloudMagic doesn't seem to change. The app itself works fine, but no numbers of unread emails shows up on the badge icon. WTF.

Just do yourself a favour and switch to a microsoft or apple email account and forward your email... Save yourself the hassle. People will get used to your new address, and you can fix websites and logins a little bit at a time as you come across them, if you even care to do this, because email fw will take care of it.

 

[Ichinisan]

For one, the native app is, well, native. It's available everywhere in the OS.

It's stupid but the Yahoo! Mail app doesn't even populate the menus for sending say a web page mail link. CloudMagic does though, and doesn't have ads.

Maybe I'll set my wife up on CloudMagic and see what she thinks of it.

EDIT:

Nope. The app icon for CloudMagic doesn't seem to change. The app itself works fine, but no numbers of unread emails shows up on the badge icon. WTF.

Did you deny it the ability to use the Notifications API? If I understand correctly, even app badges (the numbers on the icon) must use the Notifications API.

 

[Eug]

Notifications were on for that app. I just tried reinstalling it and checking the notifications settings again. Still the same behaviour.

 

[TreVader]

Lol Jesus my yahoo mail account... Ugh. The thing is a relic of the first domain name I bought, and I just didn't change it.

Yahoo is AWFUL. Every month or so at random intervals it stops accepting my password. Just... refuses. This happens for no reason at all, and is not fixable without changing the password. Even then, it can be a pain to log in to change it. There wasn't even any rhyme or reason to it, it never slowed or increased pace, jus every month or so change the password to log in at all. Oh, and you can't change it to the same password, because it still somehow does recognize it as the original when you try to change it. Go figure.


The only solution I came up with for this was to forward it through iCloud. That solved the issues.

Yahoo mail is just garbage.

 

[Bill Brasky]

I was forced to leave Hotmail for Gmail because there has always been a problem affecting a significant amount of Hotmail accounts -- but not all Hotmail accounts are affected.

Basically, a large portion of mail simply never arrives. I'm not talking about POP clients deleting messages. I'm not talking about legitimate mail being sorted as "Junk." It just doesn't arrive at all. That includes a lot of activation emails from web forums.

I think I dealt with that for over a decade. Early on, I always blamed the systems that claimed to have sent the missing confirmation messages. I eventually figured out, without any doubt, that Hotmail was responsible. Microsoft / Hotmail support was no help whatsoever. Jumped ship to Gmail and never looked back.

I absolutely love how Gmail handles messages by grouping them into conversations. When I delete a conversation, all the messages in that conversation are deleted and I don't have to look through 5 folders to find the related messages.

I love how folders are really "labels," so I can mark the conversation / messages and have it show up in multiple places.

I absolutely love the instant search and the awesome flexible search syntax.

I even love the intuitive keyboard shortcuts (enable in Gmail settings) for mail handling. The most important functions (archive, delete) can be done with my left hand on the keyboard and my right hand on the mouse.

Interesting. What desktop email client do you use? I'm using windows live mail because it's free and easy, but looking for a better product.

 

[slashbinslashbash]

I've had no major problems with Yahoo Mail on my iP5 w/ iOS 8. It occasionally asks for my password (maybe once every couple weeks) which I assume is a security thing. Gmail is far less reliable though..... I didn't realize that push wasn't working with Gmail. I have missed several work emails because of this.

 

[Eug]

I've had no major problems with Yahoo Mail on my iP5 w/ iOS 8. It occasionally asks for my password (maybe once every couple weeks) which I assume is a security thing.

It is not a security thing. When Yahoo is working properly, it never asks for my password.

 

[midwestfisherman]

GMail FTW!

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[Eug]

So, my wife's Yahoo Mail in Apple's Mail app all of a sudden fixed itself today. I wonder how long this will last.

 

[TreVader]

Usually about once or twice a month for me. God I hate yahoo so much.

 

[weevilone]

I have an old Yahoo mail account that I can't get them to eliminate. I haven't used it in many, many years. Occasionally some spammer gets into it and I get complaints from friends. I've talked to them a few times, which involved me trying to figure out what my favorite restaurant was a decade+ ago. But nope, it's still chugging along out there.

 

[dud]

Have used YM for over a decade with just a few issues. My main complaint is that I continue to get spam even after I set up a filter to trash them. I have to go in and set up a new filter but am greeted with "a filter already exists".

Question Yahoo: if a filter already exists please explain why these messages are still showing up in my spam box???

 

[Londo_Jowo]

I have a work provided iPhone 5s (iOS 8/AT&T) and the only email account I have is the work MS Exchange account. Company has MS Exchange set to push emails and I have the setting to check every 15 minutes. Many times email is not synced and even if I manually check for email it may not come through either even though I can see the mail in the inbox on my laptop.

I have an AT&T/Yahoo account on my personal phone (HTC One M8) and never have an issue with the mail syncing. Most times the phone will let me know I have email before my desktop does.

I suspect this is more of an Apple/iOS 8 issue rather than a Yahoo Mail issue.