How To Ymail working on Motorola Droid (finally)

[dgp0961]

I finally found a workaround to get Ymail accounts working on the Motorola Droid that I hope will work for others. I was not able to find a thread (maybe I missed something) where someone got this working. This is a little bit of a kludge but it worked for me.

What I found, it was not possible to setup a Ymail account like you setup up a Yahoo account on the Droid. Everytime I tried this, I received some type of error. In order to get to this work, you need a Yahoo mail account. I had an old one - if you don't have one just set one up. I then used the following instructions to setup my yahoo mail account.

Make sure Wifi is off.

go to mail icon
add account
enter email address in email address filed (name@yahoo.com)
enter password at password field
select MANUAL SETUP not next
select imap
username= name@yahoo.com
password = yourpassword
imap server= imap.mail.yahoo.com
port=143
security=none
optional = blank
select next

Then, set the outgoing SMTP server to:
smtp.mail.yahoo.com, port 587, security=none

and finish the setup. Hopefully this will work and you can access you yahoo mail account.

Next, click on the email icon (you just setup), bring up the menu and select account settings. Choose Incoming settings and change the Username to your Ymail account - name@ymail.com and save the settings.

For me, this worked! Hopefully it will work for you.

Let me know if it does.

 

[justjimjpc]

I finally found a workaround to get Ymail accounts working on the Motorola Droid that I hope will work for others. I was not able to find a thread (maybe I missed something) where someone got this working. This is a little bit of a kludge but it worked for me.

What I found, it was not possible to setup a Ymail account like you setup up a Yahoo account on the Droid. Everytime I tried this, I received some type of error. In order to get to this work, you need a Yahoo mail account. I had an old one - if you don't have one just set one up. I then used the following instructions to setup my yahoo mail account.

Make sure Wifi is off.

go to mail icon
add account
enter email address in email address filed (name@yahoo.com)
enter password at password field
select MANUAL SETUP not next
select imap
username= name@yahoo.com
password = yourpassword
imap server= imap.mail.yahoo.com
port=143
security=none
optional = blank
select next

Then, set the outgoing SMTP server to:
smtp.mail.yahoo.com, port 587, security=none

and finish the setup. Hopefully this will work and you can access you yahoo mail account.

Next, click on the email icon (you just setup), bring up the menu and select account settings. Choose Incoming settings and change the Username to your Ymail account - name@ymail.com and save the settings.

For me, this worked! Hopefully it will work for you.

Let me know if it does.

Thanks for posting this quide.... I have move it to the DROID forum

 

[chumley18]

worked like a charm. Thanks!

 

[II Kings 9:20]

I discovered this tonight right in my Verizon paperwork. I had planned to post it but found this has been posted here. I'll add that VZW has a different smtp listed in the paperwork. - the recommended is smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com and it too works like a charm. I don't know if there is any difference in function-if it works, it works.

 

[yankeeboy]

I finally found a workaround to get Ymail accounts working on the Motorola Droid that I hope will work for others. I was not able to find a thread (maybe I missed something) where someone got this working. This is a little bit of a kludge but it worked for me.

What I found, it was not possible to setup a Ymail account like you setup up a Yahoo account on the Droid. Everytime I tried this, I received some type of error. In order to get to this work, you need a Yahoo mail account. I had an old one - if you don't have one just set one up. I then used the following instructions to setup my yahoo mail account.

Make sure Wifi is off.

go to mail icon
add account
enter email address in email address filed (name@yahoo.com)
enter password at password field
select MANUAL SETUP not next
select imap
username= name@yahoo.com
password = yourpassword
imap server= imap.mail.yahoo.com
port=143
security=none
optional = blank
select next

Then, set the outgoing SMTP server to:
smtp.mail.yahoo.com, port 587, security=none

and finish the setup. Hopefully this will work and you can access you yahoo mail account.

Next, click on the email icon (you just setup), bring up the menu and select account settings. Choose Incoming settings and change the Username to your Ymail account - name@ymail.com and save the settings.

For me, this worked! Hopefully it will work for you.

Let me know if it does.

Wow, this worked for my YMAIL!!!! Thank you so much! I have been banging my head against the wall for 2 weeks +++

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

 

[sweeet761]

I tried step by step on my droid and will not work for me grrr.

 

[yankeeboy]

Wow, this worked for my YMAIL!!!! Thank you so much! I have been banging my head against the wall for 2 weeks +++

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I spoke to fast....

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[jmetzger16]

so i got it to work so that i can access my emails no problem. the issue is that i don't get the notifications when i get a new yahoo email. i've tried 3 different times that it should check for new emails, but the notifications just don't work....actually it worked once in the past week so i really don't get it. is there a way to change that to my default email account or something stupid?

 

[hiway]

For some reason this doesn't work for me anymore. Stopped on the 29th of Nov. I re-entered and checked numerous times if I followed it correctly (even though it worked previously) to make sure also.

The error happens when setting up the Incoming server settings:

! Setup could not finish

Username or password incorrect.

Don't know what changed. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

 

[goathog02]

For some reason this doesn't work for me anymore. Stopped on the 29th of Nov. I re-entered and checked numerous times if I followed it correctly (even though it worked previously) to make sure also.

The error happens when setting up the Incoming server settings:

! Setup could not finish

Username or password incorrect.

Don't know what changed. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

Stopped for me too. Worked for 1 day, then nothing....

Anyone know the fix? (or cause?)

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

For some reason this doesn't work for me anymore. Stopped on the 29th of Nov. I re-entered and checked numerous times if I followed it correctly (even though it worked previously) to make sure also.

The error happens when setting up the Incoming server settings:

! Setup could not finish

Username or password incorrect.

Don't know what changed. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

I just got the same error as well I had my mail set up right last night, and tonight it keeps giving me this error. I wonder if yahoo has put a stop to this to get us to upgrade to a plus account?

 

[goathog02]

Make sure you have data sync turned on. That was what fixed it for me.

 

[dr_trousers]

Make sure you have data sync turned on. That was what fixed it for me.

How do you turn it on?

 

[goathog02]

The circular arrows on the power control widget.

 

[dr_trousers]

The circular arrows on the power control widget.

I have the auto-sync option checked in the accounts and sync settings

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

I have the auto-sync option checked in the accounts and sync settings

same here, still no yahoo mail

 

[evlhearted1]

thank you so ****ing much!!!!!! the people at the verizon store suck ass and they took an hour trying to figure it out and never did! i finally took my phone from them and told them they were lame and left. your great! i have been missing my email for 4 days and it was killing me!! thanks soo much

 

[goathog02]

Looks like all the things that we "think" fix the issue really don't. Lookq like it is a yahoo thing from other threads I have been reading. That is why I am killing my yahoo account and moving them all to Google.

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

Anyone really think that yahoo will get this problem fixed? I just don't think they will, considering its google based android OS thats having the problem.

 

[DanSan]

i got my droid today, did this and it worked perfectly..

then later i downloaded a "power management" app and when i plugged the phone in to charge it turned on wifi. i believe the wifi being turned on somehow messed it up. i uninstalled the app, turned off wifi, deleted the email address, rebooted and redid it and it worked fine now

 

[JustROLLIN]

i got my droid today, did this and it worked perfectly..

then later i downloaded a "power management" app and when i plugged the phone in to charge it turned on wifi. i believe the wifi being turned on somehow messed it up. i uninstalled the app, turned off wifi, deleted the email address, rebooted and redid it and it worked fine now

YOU ARE RIGHT!!!! I am so excited. I have been waiting for weeks now. Works well, thus far.

 

[DanSan]

YOU ARE RIGHT!!!! I am so excited. I have been waiting for weeks now. Works well, thus far.

Yea and it broke on me again... everytime i turn on Wifi the yahoo mail craps out.

 

[JustROLLIN]

Yea and it broke on me again... everytime i turn on Wifi the yahoo mail craps out.

Hmmm...I will keep that in mind. I really dont use WiFi much since I have a great 3G signal, but its good to know. I am just so amped to see my Yahoo mail coming through my Droid. I am still inside the 30day return period and this was a tipping point for me.

 

[TheAugust]

I attempted this weeks ago and it worked for a couple days... Now all I can get is a Username/password error.

I've tried it with every single combination of WiFi being on/off, Sync on/off, with/without the "@yahoo.com" suffix to my account name, and every other thing I can think off.

It seems like this is becoming a problem for everyone from every message board I've seen since early December. Who here *STILL* has it working with their default mail app?!

I'm seriously about to abandon yahoo if this issue isn't addressed ASAP.

 

[BiGMERF]

works good for me on my mytouch. thanks