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Friday, March 11, 2011

Yahoo Mail's IMAP Bug Is Finally Fixed

Posted by Richard Chao in "Windows Phone Software" @ 05:48 PM

http://www.withinwindows.com/2011/0...f-imap-finally/

"To quickly summarize, whenever a smartphone checked for new Yahoo mail, the server would transmit more information than needed. While not a huge problem on desktops connected to broadband, it was huge in the mobile space - a space in which carriers snipe bandwidth hogs and users oblivious to their data usage and monthly allowances."

It looks like Yahoo has finally made some changes in the way its servers communicate with handsets when polled for mail. Instead of sending back the entire message header as before, thereby causing users to use more data than necessary, the servers now only send back the requested information when polled. This is good news for Yahoo Mail users especially since most carriers are doing their best to phase out unlimited data for one to two GB plans.


Thursday, February 3, 2011

Yahoo Fires Back: Windows Phone 7 Data Bug is From "Non-Standard IMAP Implementation"

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Windows Phone News" @ 02:09 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/02/...r-windows-phon/

Courtesy of Engadget, here's Yahoo's statement on the subject:

"Yahoo! Mail is widely available on tens of millions of mobile phones, including those running on Apple iOS, Android, Nokia Symbian, and RIM. The issue on the Windows Phones is specific to how Microsoft chose to implement IMAP for Yahoo! Mail and does not impact Yahoo! Mail on these other mobile devices. Yahoo! has offered to provide Microsoft a near-term solution for the implementation they chose, and is encouraging Microsoft to change to a standard way of integrating with Yahoo! Mail, which would result in a permanent fix."

Microsoft has a long history of not taking POP/IMAP seriously, so I'm inclined to believe Yahoo in this instance. Microsoft has always been fixated on great Exchange support, to a fault, so this IMAP issue with Yahoo doesn't surprise me at all. Prior to Windows Phone 7, IMAP performance was horrific - my iPod Touch could poll my personal email, download messages, and be done before my HTC HD2 was done the initial check for new messages. Windows Phone 7 seems to be quite a bit better in that regard - checking IMAP email is quite quick - but it wouldn't surprise me that Microsoft perhaps took some liberties with how their implementation of IMAP works.

Did any Windows Phone Thoughts readers get hit by this bug? What did it do to your data consumption?


Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Excess Data Usage: The Denouement

Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "Windows Phone News" @ 06:00 PM

http://windowsphonesecrets.com/2011...a-leak-culprit/

And the culprit is Yahoo Mail - their server is apparently sending 25 times more data than it should, thus hammering your bandwidth and battery life. Microsoft is recommending at the moment to switch from scheduled to manual updates (hit the Read link for a how-to) while they and Yahoo work on a fix, which should be rolled out soon. Has anybody with a Yahoo mail account seen this?


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