How to Setup Yahoo Mail on Motorola DROID
After receiving the long awaited Android 2.2 Froyo software update, the critically-acclaimed Motorola DROID smartphone and one of the most popular Android devices in the US, was stripped by two of its useful features, the tethering ability, as well as the option to create Wi-Fi hotspots.
Further, if you own a Yahoo Mail account you are probably aware of the fact that you will be unable to check your email while using the Wi-Fi connection.
Basically, you will only be able to check your Yahoo account only when the smartphone is connected through the 3G data network.
For those of you that didn't manage to setup their Yahoo account yet, here is how you should do it.
The following guide assumes that you already have Yahoo Mail Plus service.
The first thing you need to do is to turn off Wi-Fi connection, so you can avoid eventual error messages and to be able to connect to the Yahoo account.
Then click on Email option, but not on the Gmail one, and enter your Yahoo login address. Select Manual Setup, and then select IMAP.
You will have to manually enter the following, under the IMAP server, imap.mail.yahoo.com.
Do not change anything else, as the port, as well as the other settings remain the same. Select Next and under SMTP enter the following, smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com.
Likewise, the port and other settings remain the same, so don't bother to change anything else.
Select Next and then select Account name and update settings. Congratulations, you have finished setting up your Yahoo mail account and you can start testing it.
As I have already mentioned above, Motorola DROID, as well as other Motorola Android smartphones (i.e. Motorola Devour) does not allow users to check their Yahoo mail accounts while the Wi-Fi connection is enabled.
This is a major issue that hasn't been fixed yet, and no viable explanations were received.
Further, if you own a Yahoo Mail account you are probably aware of the fact that you will be unable to check your email while using the Wi-Fi connection.
Basically, you will only be able to check your Yahoo account only when the smartphone is connected through the 3G data network.
For those of you that didn't manage to setup their Yahoo account yet, here is how you should do it.
The following guide assumes that you already have Yahoo Mail Plus service.
The first thing you need to do is to turn off Wi-Fi connection, so you can avoid eventual error messages and to be able to connect to the Yahoo account.
Then click on Email option, but not on the Gmail one, and enter your Yahoo login address. Select Manual Setup, and then select IMAP.
You will have to manually enter the following, under the IMAP server, imap.mail.yahoo.com.
Do not change anything else, as the port, as well as the other settings remain the same. Select Next and under SMTP enter the following, smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com.
Likewise, the port and other settings remain the same, so don't bother to change anything else.
Select Next and then select Account name and update settings. Congratulations, you have finished setting up your Yahoo mail account and you can start testing it.
As I have already mentioned above, Motorola DROID, as well as other Motorola Android smartphones (i.e. Motorola Devour) does not allow users to check their Yahoo mail accounts while the Wi-Fi connection is enabled.
This is a major issue that hasn't been fixed yet, and no viable explanations were received.
