Comments on: 2nd UPDATE: Issues retrieving from external accounts

By: Mail Guy

Mail Guy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:41:30 +0000

PS or tell your sysadmin to enable “pop3_enable_last = yes” in the server configuation for the pop server.

By: Mail Guy

Mail Guy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:40:08 +0000

FYI, people getting lastUnsupported alert dialog need to disable “Leave mail on POP server”. I don’t know why Yahoo is using a “prehistoric” and conceptually in accurate LAST command instead of UIDL: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-June/003775.html

By: AceBrwn

AceBrwn — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:36:02 +0000

Sign in to your email account, hit inbox, and somewhere on the upper right corner it will ask you if want update to newer version of yahoo email. I updated mine and it solved the problem. Hope this helps.

By: vixen

vixen — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:09:32 +0000

Whenever I try to open emails sent in by friends, I receive the message “error code 14″. It’s so frustrating as it has been more than a month that I am unable to open my emails. Help. Thanks.

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By: Bee

Bee — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:05:49 +0000

first- check out my comment above. It works for me. I have put a shortcut on my desktop to fetch my external eMail with that method. Hope the other method will works soon again in a stable way.
Regarding your frustration: I agree- I have been again and again very frustrated with the Yahoo eMail service. Sometimes, I am wondering if the company went the same way as many big companies: 99% managers and 1% creative workers. It seems that the Yahoo email software is being developed by just one totally overworked person… I was tempted to switch to Google, but this is by far not what we are used to get from Yahoo in terms of GUI. Yahoo has done a great job in creating this awesome frontend (congratulation to the programmer), and I am amazed that this whole thing serves several hundred million people. Nevertheless, I am also using it for our business purposes and I expect a much more stable operation. I have no problem to pay twenty times as much as I’m paying now for my mail plus service, but I expect stable operations and a customer service that helps me promptly and not after ten iterations with cheap call center people.
So- Yahoo: Congratulations for what is there! Please make it usable for more professional users, although they might be a minority. The income from that should make an approrpiate team affordable.
Bee

By: vladimir

vladimir — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:39:50 +0000

This is too much. Since mid May i can not access my external email. I receive the same spam but not my external email messages. I am constantly traveling and i can not have my computer with me. I was using this service for 3 years with out problem but now is not possible anymore. Please, advice me what to do?

By: Sarita

Sarita — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:58:33 +0000

I have an email account with yahoo.co.in, Whenever i try to open received mails from my inbox it shows the msg “error code 14″
Pls help me in solving the problem.

By: Bee

Bee — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:05:33 +0000

update:
it seems to me that the speed of your internet connection plays a role here. I had problems to retrieve my POP3 eMail last week while at a very slow wireless internet connection. Now, back at a fast line, the Yahoo service works again as usual. It is puzzling to me, and maybe this is sporadic, but maybe it helps someone else.
Bee

By: Bee

Bee — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:18:05 +0000

I am also having the problem that Yahoo cannot fetch eMail from my external server- it is sporadic, though. I found a way to force the eMail fetch by this method:
1. goto Options -> mail options
2. -> accounts
3. select the account where you want to download emails from
4. click on ‘Check Mail’ there.
5. check your yahoo mail, here are your emails.
This may also fail, but it works more likely than the yahoo mail frontend
Hope it’ll work for you, too
Bee