SubscribeIf you expected to use your Motorola Droid smartphone with Yahoo Mail, you might be shocked to find that you can’t. You’ll get an error about the username and password being incorrect.
The problem is with a limitation of the free email offered by Yahoo. They do not allow access by default. You have to purchase the Yahoo Mail Plus service, which runs $20 a year. It’s the only way to open up the POP3 features required by the Droid to work with Yahoo Mail. Once you purchase Yahoo Mail Plus, it should setup just fine.
And FYI, AT&T users get Yahoo Mail with their service and have this feature enabled already.
by Meg, on November 23 2009 @ 8:56 am
You can, in fact, have access to your free Yahoo mail with the Motorola Droid. I had the same problem you mention above, however I Googled it and found a solution on Yahoo Answers (link below). I followed the steps exactly and had no problems.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091106124608AAFAqnR
by Chris, on November 26 2009 @ 8:14 am
I followed Meg’s link above (Thanks Meg!) and the directions and it still comaplined about the username/password. I read down a bit furhter in the thread and someone stated that they were successful after disconnecting from WiFi. Itried that and it worked!
So, I can login into Yahoo! for email, football pools, etc., prvovided I’m connected to the 3G network; but it fails if I’m connected to a WiFi network.