E-mail issues, anyone else have?

[Krgdesigns]

I switched from the blackberry tour and something I am noticing is that it received emails a lot faster then this phone side by side. I tested it and every time the blackberry would receive the email at least 3-5min before the shift and sometimes it took the shift even longer then that. And everytime I would get an email my blackerry would tell me and I have tried to set up the shift this way but have been unsuccessful, maybe someone can help me? I want when I get my yahoo email for it to alert my phone immediately and not wait for it to refresh every hour (I think thats the only option I seen on the shift) Thanks in advance for any help

 

[hmmm]

I use hotmail as my normal email address and I had to set it up as an exchange email address which is what I assume you had to do. Hotmail offers Push email which is what it sounds like you want. It works the same way Gmail works. When I delete email on my phone it deletes it from hotmail's servers etc and my phone doesn't do the searching for new emails, the hotmail servers push it to my phone.

Does Yahoo offer that or was your Blackberry just actively checking for messages at a much higher frequency than the Shift offers and were the messages on your Blackberry just basically a copy of your Yahoo acount or could you actually delete emails off your phone and have them delete from the servers?

These are the settings I used for hotmail to set it up as an exchange email and even if yahoo doesn't offer push mail you can set the Shift to actively check every 5 minutes, at least I can, though it may drain your battery faster. I believe Push is best for battery life. I realize yahoo may be different but just for example:


Server/URL: m.hotmail.com
Username: Enter full email address, for example: someone@example.com
Domain: Leave this blank
SSL: Enable this

Then I had to go into the Menu>Accounts & Sync>Exchange ActivSync>Schedule and change the frequency to "Push mail" because it defaults to 15 minutes or some other time under Peak and Offpeak hours. This is where you could check 5 minutes if you don't have a push mail account

Once I did this my hotmail account on my phone works the same as my Gmail account on my phone and I get messages about 10-30 seconds after my real email account gets them. Or you would get them at whatever time interval you pick.

My phone also notifies me of new messages just like Gmail but I had to set that within the email app itself. Once I open the Mail app I go Menu>More>Settings>Notification settings.

Maybe some of what I did to get my hotmail account working will help you out.

 

[Krgdesigns]

Thanks for all the info, and yeah on my blackberry I could delete from the handheld only or both the handheld and the server which was nice. I did set up my yahoo in the phone like it said. One thing I am noticing and maybe I am just missing it but when I go to Settings>Accounts &Sync>
I dont see Exchange Active Sync?? And I missing this in the phone? All I see is background data and Auto-Sync and then the list of like facebook, weather,stocks etc

 

[hmmm]

Thanks for all the info, and yeah on my blackberry I could delete from the handheld only or both the handheld and the server which was nice. I did set up my yahoo in the phone like it said. One thing I am noticing and maybe I am just missing it but when I go to Settings>Accounts &Sync>
I dont see Exchange Active Sync?? And I missing this in the phone? All I see is background data and Auto-Sync and then the list of like facebook, weather,stocks etc

My email is listed in that list of all the other things you mentioned and is called Exchange ActiveSync with a small subtitle underneath that has my email address. I clicked the "Add Account" button you see there on the bottom of the page and chose "Exchange Activesync" to create my email address or maybe that appeared when I added the email through the app I cannot remember entirely now. Maybe you can create your Yahoo account in this way like I did except use m.yahoo.com in the server address field otherwise Yahoo may be different and hopefully someone who has set one up can help.

 

[jesusice]

Not to threadjack but you could always convert to Gmail. I work in a call center and do lots of pin resets and I always cringe when it's a Yahoo address - they always want to wait for the email to come through and Yahoo always seems to take the longest.

 

[Triple Threat]

When you set up email on your blackberry, RIM has servers that automatically check pop3 or imap at minimum every 15 minutes and "push" that email to your phone. BB built there business model on email and messaging so it's no surprise that they will be a little faster at receiving.
Gmail, Yahoo, hotmail, etc, have servers with publicly know incoming and outgoing addresses.
An exchange server setup is different than pop3 or imap and is meant to be a way for you to get your work email on your phone. Businesses don't normally have publicly known server addresses and their IT department usually wants to control who can have access to them. That's why when you try to set up an exchange server it will ask for incoming/outgoing server addresses, domain name, port number, etc...

 

[jscher2000]

And everytime I would get an email my blackerry would tell me and I have tried to set up the shift this way but have been unsuccessful, maybe someone can help me? I want when I get my yahoo email for it to alert my phone immediately and not wait for it to refresh every hour (I think thats the only option I seen on the shift)

In theory you can get immediate notification, and retrieve mail very frequently. I don't have my Yahoo! account set up in the phone, but here are the setting screens from an IMAP account.