TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

This is getting REALLY agrivating.

Not only does my TP go into super snail mode, but my battery gets hot and drains quickly because the phone is trying to sync 2437 messages from my Yahoo Mail inbox. The earliest messages are from 06.

At first I checked the sync settings and even tried changing them to another number of days to see if that would work. No dice.

Then I took the phone back to sprint for this issue and another one and had them replace the phone. Still have the same problem.

Other than the actual email account, the only constant between both phones is that I used PIM to load up my contacts, messages, and calendar (still need to go through those text messages and deleted a few thousand).

Anybody have a solution for this problem? I'm thinking it's Yahoo that's causing the issue, but I'm not sure how or how to solve it. If I need to bump up my account from a free one to a Plus account, that's fine, but I'd like to get my email back on track.

BTW, this problem comes and goes. I initially thought it was only on weekends, but the problem surfaced today as well.

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

i say ditch the yahoo account and get a google one sorry jsut my opinion

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

I have a gmail account as well, but since I've had the Yahoo one for 4 years and it's always worked pretty well, I'm not about to ditch it and move all of my forum memberships over to a new gmail account.

Gmail is kind of clinical for my taste too...

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

try setting the account up with the seven program it will turn you pop3 or IMAP e-mail in to Push mail .. thats what i use ...

i'll post the cab once i find it

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

here it is .. its 1 version old but it will just ask you to update it

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

Try adding recent: to your user name like this

recent:username@yahoo.com

I do not know for sure if that works with Yahoo, as I use the far superior Gmail :P, but I do know it works with other popmail servers.

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Oh, and as far as changing to Gmail, its not as bad as it sounds. You can actually have your Gmail account grab your Yahoo mail for you with POP, then you can even reply to mails with your Yahoo email address, all within the Gmail interface. Not to mention POP/IMAP, Google Sync, and a million other features, like I said, far superior.

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

I had this problem. I deleted my yahoo account off the phone, reset it up, no more problems.

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I might look into this. I've had the yahoo account for so long and it's easy. Plus I just like the antiquated interface. But I really need my business emails to get to me and gmail might be the answer. Still sucks that the yahoo account is going haywire. I'm tempted to pay for the Yahoo Plus just so I can contact support and ask them what they did to cause the problem as I highly doubt it's a Sprint/HTC thing (complaining enough to get a TP2 would be nice though :laughing6:)



Wish this was a solution for me...I've tried this with the old phone and it didn't work. I've also setup the account on a refurbed phone and still no luck.

It keeps switching back and forth which is weird. It will be accurate for a few hours, then decide it's time to download all 23xx emails. :banghead:

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

Didn't work, but thanks for the suggestion. It might have something to do with the fact that the yahoo mail is being pulled as IMAP, not POP3.

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

any resolution on this issue? both my wife and i have TPs and yahoo accounts, and every day or 2 it goes bananas and downloads all the messages.

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Ditto. I have been having the same issue last few weeks. I would typically go to menu and click on STOP Send / Recieve and on the next sync it corrects itself. No idea why it started doing that either..

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

once you get 2000+ messages on your phone it really kills the performance. manila doesn't even load for me. you have to do all this trickery to delete the yahoo account, and the delete process takes about 20 minutes.

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

i am having the same problem with my yahoo! account.

has a solution been found without having to redirect to a google account?

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

Any luck with this? I have the same issue with Yahoo! IMAP

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lame... but i opened a gmail account to fix the problem for me. :(

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

I loaded Seven on the phone and will see if this helps the situation at all. So far so good. Will know for sure in a week or so.

Re: TP downloads entire Yahoo Mail account instead of only the past 7 days
 

OK. A little clarity. I went through 3 Sprint TPs and all of them did the same thing. The first two were different OS software than the last which was evident by a few features like slide to answer/end and modified menus on the contacts list.

Sprint ended up sending me a TP2 because of it. Super awesome Tech btw. She called me back multiple times to let me know where the phone was in transit and also to help me activate the phone.

One thing that I noticed is that the problem seems to present itself more often if you set the ping frequency to a short time. For instance, on the last TP, I had 2 yahoo email accounts one set to update every 15 minutes, the other set to update every 2 hours. The 15 min account went bonkers within a few hours. The 2 hour account was fine.

I also couldn't clear the account directory or delete the account because the phone won't let you do either while it's syncing and even multiple attempts to "stop send/receive" wouldn't work. I finally ended the email account in the task manager then quickly cleared the account which takes upwards of 10 mins to do. VERY annoying.

Since I didn't have this problem during the 1st 6 months of owning the phone, I'm wondering if Yahoo made a change to it's servers or if there was a WinMo update that may have caused the problem.

So far, I'm loving the TP2. I just can't figure out why they ditched the LED flash.