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Help Help- cant get yahoo account set up on EVO 3D - Fool's Errand

EarlyMon

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I'm officially hijacking this thread because many people start at the first post.

In this thread, you'll find many setting suggestions for Yahoo mail, and one workaround involving changing your region and using gmail to get the job done (pretty neat).

Otherwise:

Ok, staff has compared notes and we're on a fool's errand.

This is found across all Android, especially HTC, and effects every mail client.

Yahoo has been sweeping under the rug that they break and fix what's broken on their end every few days per a discussion with Yahoo.

Suggest either using the web interface, intercepting with gmail as documented earlier, or trying your luck.

Definitely complain to Yahoo and definitely take their lack of service into account when forming your personal email strategy moving forward.

Note - same nonsense is happening with Hotmail accounts for the same reason.
 
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I'm having difficulty also. I've tried a few different settings that I came across in forums and what Yahoo help says. Haven't received any of my Yahoo emails to phone though.
There does appear to be a Yahoo Android App, personally i'd rather just handle it through the phone's mail app if possible as I only use that account for a couple sites.
 
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What exactly did you remove - in other words what should I show to get it to work? Thanks.


I believe it says htc.imap.mail.yahoo.com and htc.smtp.mail.yahoo.com for incoming and outgoing server

Remove the HTC portion in the front for both and the set up should work

You should be left with

incoming - imap.mail.yahoo.com
outgoing - smtp.mail.yahoo.com
 
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I don't have my 3VO yet and I've never used an EVO, but I'll take a stab at helping anyway because I get my mail from Yahoo (via K9 Mail on my current phone). Here are the settings I have in K9 that work for me:

INCOMING
IMAP Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
Security Type: SSL (always)
Authentication Type: PLAIN
Port: 993

OUTGOING
SMTP Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Security Type: SSL (always)
Authentication Type: PLAIN
Port: 465
Require Sign-In: [yes]

My gut tells me you might have the authentication configuration wrong (?)
Also, Complex757 (above) is correct, but also be sure to remove the leading period (i.e. "imap.mail.yahoo.com" as opposed to ".imap.mail.yahoo.com"). Hope this helps!
 
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I don't have my 3VO yet and I've never used an EVO, but I'll take a stab at helping anyway because I get my mail from Yahoo (via K9 Mail on my current phone). Here are the settings I have in K9 that work for me:

INCOMING
IMAP Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
Security Type: SSL (always)
Authentication Type: PLAIN
Port: 993

OUTGOING
SMTP Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Security Type: SSL (always)
Authentication Type: PLAIN
Port: 465
Require Sign-In: [yes]

My gut tells me you might have the authentication configuration wrong (?)
Also, Complex757 (above) is correct, but also be sure to remove the leading period (i.e. "imap.mail.yahoo.com" as opposed to ".imap.mail.yahoo.com"). Hope this helps!


Everything setup as above, don't see anywhere to toggle "Authentication Type" though. Interestingly if I Send email from that account on my phone it goes through, just won't receive anything from the mailbox.
 
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i had the yahoo mail app however i have found it to use a lot of battery power. i dropped it and went back to the stock email app.

i tried the settings up in this thread. the only changes i did were to remove "htc". id make sure there are not spaces in front of the "imap" or "smtp" words. i had left a space before the "imap" (so it was actually "_imap to the app) and that caused things to not work. i re checked.. all is fine...
 
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Tried the above recommendations. Keep getting the authentication failed...verify your user name and password.

When using the Manual setup, I don't have anything that shows incoming or outgoing on the screen...just IMAP Server (which I removed the "htc.") Security type is set to SSL and Server Port is 993.

My phone has the latest updates installed and I'm using the mail account on the home screen (not a Yahoo app).
 
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I'm having the same problem as well with my EVO 3D. Yesterday, I couldn't get my Yahoo! account to work at all, so I added my gmail account which I rarely use. Today I read a post which suggested adding a gmail account first, so I tried to add my Yahoo! account again. Now I am able to get it to send mail just fine, but it still does not receive any messages. I tried removing the "htc" in front of the imap and smtp server addresses, but that didn't fix the problem either.

Any suggestions?
 
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well its a mixed bag here.. some are having NO ISSUES whilst some are. so the yahoo settings above DO work. it would seem the issues are unique to the individual as to why its not working with them. ive got several other POP and imap acct. on the 3D using the stock mail app and they all play nice in the sandbox...

there is a common denominator somewhere for the folks w/issues.. need to find it... :(
 
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