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Help Yahoo Mail App Not Syncing in Background

As far as I can tell, the Yahoo Mail app chooses to work only when it feels like it. There'll be a week where I'm notified of new emails IMMEDIATELY, and then there'll be a week where I get zero notifications and must check my mail manually. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

The problem I've been having lately is that it doesn't seem to realize that I acknowledged the notifications. Eg, I'll get a notification that says, "you have 2 new emails." I acknowledge it and read the emails. Then later it will say, "you have 5 new emails," when in reality only 3 of them are "new"- I had already been notified of the first 2. They just keep adding up. It doesn't reset until I turn my off and then back on. Right now it says I have 27 new emails!
 
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As far as I can tell, the Yahoo Mail app chooses to work only when it feels like it. There'll be a week where I'm notified of new emails IMMEDIATELY, and then there'll be a week where I get zero notifications and must check my mail manually. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

The problem I've been having lately is that it doesn't seem to realize that I acknowledged the notifications. Eg, I'll get a notification that says, "you have 2 new emails." I acknowledge it and read the emails. Then later it will say, "you have 5 new emails," when in reality only 3 of them are "new"- I had already been notified of the first 2. They just keep adding up. It doesn't reset until I turn my off and then back on. Right now it says I have 27 new emails!


I started experiencing the same thing a couple days ago. It pushes emails randomly and no is only doing it for one of the accounts I have set up. Frustrating to say the least.
 
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Same issue's here as well.

I had the ever increasing unread mail bug, but a uninstall and reinstall seemed to fix that. But i've not had a single push notification in the last 24 hours.

I think it's something to do with their service, as the app was working pretty much perfectly until this week since the last update.
 
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