I noticed when I troed to add my yahoo email account to the Droid I always get the message that I have entered an invalid name or password and I tried it several times. I also see it says that some yahoo email cannot work with the droid. Well I have the basic free yahoo so I am not understanding which yahoo accounts will and will not work on the Droid, Anyone know anything about this? Thanks.

had the same problem with my yahoo mail, even after following the manual setup directions from other sites. finally got it to work by turning off the wifi first, as suggested in another forum: http://forums.crackberry.com/f169/normal-yahoo-mail-does-work-...

I too had the same problem, and just switched to the K9 E-mail client, and yahoo works fine.

I just figured out for mine. I have att but the server is yahoo. go to email on droid add account enter email and password manual set up pop3 account when you enter your username you must include the entire email address not just the beginning (i.e. @.........net/com etc.) incoming pop3 server (if you have att) is : pop.att.yahoo.com (or you can find what your settings must be in your yahoo email server settings in your mail options account) IF you go to your email account (yahoo, att etc.) and click on mail options and find the page for email server settings) should be under Article/FAQ # kb401570 it will list all the information you need to enter into your droid when doing setup. you will have to manually add in incoming server, outgoing server, full email address, incoming port # and outgoing port#

I have tried several options to make Yahoo email work well on my Droid. The best configuration for me can be found on my blog athttp://jpwhitehome.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/resolving-outgoing-email-problems-with-yahoo-email-plus-on-a-droid/

This problem is happening to me as well. Sometimes Yahoo IMAP works on the Droid and sometimes it doesn't. My only half fast solution was to bookmark Y Mail in the browser. My biggest problem is when all my account settings get deleted out of nowhere.Just the other day, all my e-mail account settings got deleted ... POOF ... gone. I set all my accounts back up (and had to setup the Yahoo account a few times to get it right...username/password invalid errors). With all accounts set up, there is now a serious indexing problem of some kind. I click on one message and a completely different message opens. The header information is from the message I clicked, but the body of the message is another message, sometimes from another account. To make things worse, it's not repeatable. If I go back and open the message three or four times, the right one finally opens. I only have a few apps on the phone. I have read other messages where people are uninstalling the same apps I have and the deleted settings problem still occurs. I really loved this thing until this problem. And to think, I bought out of my old provider's contract to get into a Droid. Very frustrating.

Here is a solution: Go to yahoo mail, go to Options (upper right corner), deactivate "Save a copy of the message in the Sent folder". Duplicate problem solved but you will not have a saved sent mail. You can cc to yourself and move the email to the Sent folder if you really want to save it.

I've been connected to Yahoo Mail since I got my Eris, but the capabilities are limited. Even though I have had my Yahoo e-mail for 10 years now, I've decided to switch to Google. It isn't worth the hassle. Overall Google is better and I can get all of the benefits from my mail account instead of being limited with how Yahoo has neutered their mail with Android. I will monitor, but not use, my Yahoo mail for the foreseeable future. I have a vacation notice advising anyone who sends me mail, of my new Gmail account. I figure after 6-8 months, most of the important stuff will have changed over.

To set up Yahoo E-Mail on the Motorola Droid:Make sure Wi-Fi is turned offPress the E-Mail icon (the default Android E-Mail application)Enter your Yahoo E-Mail address and passwordPress “Manual Setup” in the lower left hand cornerFor “Incoming Server Settings” set the IMAP server to “imap.mail.yahoo.com” and the Port to 143For “Outgoing Server Settings” set the SMTP Server to “smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com” and the Port to 587Check “Require sign-in” and press NextSelect how often your Droid will check for Email, and choose default optionsGive the account a name and set your display name for outgoing messages

I managed to get Yahoo set up successfully using the IMAP to begin with, then it stopped working like everybody else's. Here's what I did to get it to work.........In my Yahoo mail settings, I temporarily set my account to be from "Asia", which does not charge to access email from other methods. Then I set up the account on my Droid, after it worked a few days, I changed my account back to U.S. setting. Voila! Hope this works for some of you.

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In the Android Market I just found a new app for Yahoo Mail that will automatically turn wi-fi on and off to check yahoo mail. It is called ROID.

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Thank you! So far so good!

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