Yahoo Small Business vs iPhone Mail
It had to happen. I’ve joined the masses, paid through the nose to AT&T, and purchased an iPhone. Two in fact. One for me and one for the wife. Only one problem, Yahoo Mail doesn’t work on the iPhone.
Alright, maybe that isn’t strickly true. In fact Yahoo has very nice support for the iPhone. Even incorperating a form of “push” mail to notify you of new messages. The problem is that I have a Yahoo Small Business account and on Yahoo Small Business you can’t send message from the iPhone. It will iMap your inbox fine, but shows an error when you try and send a message.
Note, this doesn’t happen with a normal Yahoo Mail Account
So how do you fix it? Well it is fixable but you have to jump through some hoops:
1. Delete your Yahoo Small Business email account from your iPhone (if you’ve already set one up).
2. Go to Settings > Mail and Add Account
3. At this step select Other (not Yahoo Mail)
4. Enter your Yahoo Small Business address along with your password. Touch Save.
5. Switch to POP for your mail settings and fill out the following information for your outgoing server:
Host Name: smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com
Username: (your small business email address)
Password: (Yahoo Password)
6. For your incoming server fill out some random false information such as pop.pop.com and fake username/password (will worry about viewing your mail in a moment).
7. Hit save. You’ll probably get an error that it couldn’t verify your information. Click save again and the iPhone will tell you that you may not be able to send and recieve mail. Go ahead and hit Save again.
8. Go into Settings > Mail again and click on your new account. Change the description line to Send Mail (for ease of reference). Also delete everything from the Incoming Mail server section (hostname, account, etc).
9. Go to Settings > Mail and Add Account. This time select Yahoo Mail.
10. Enter your Yahoo Smaill Business email and password and touch Save.
11. Go to Settings > Mail and scroll down to where you see Default Account. Change it to Send Mail.
You should now be able to send messages! It should work for replies, sending photos, etc. Only side effect seems to be that it does not put those messages in your sent mail folder on Yahoo. But if you can live with that you should be good to go. Hope this is helpful to someone as I couldn’t find anything like it when I was trying to set up.
