My Email Address Has Suddenly Stopped Working

It stopped sending or receiving on my iPhone. So then I signed onto yahoo, tried going through mail there and it said I had an invalid user id or password. This just happened today.

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Answer #1: Posted by antiroach on August 9th, 2011 8:23 PM

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-- Check the iPhone's Mail settings

Choose Settings > Mail > Yahoo! Mail account and confirm that your Yahoo! Mail account information—address and password—has been entered correctly.

-- Check receiving mail to your Apple iPhone

Go into Yahoo! Mail Inbox, click the refresh icon in the lower left, and confirm that you can receive new Mail messages.

-- Check sending mail from your Apple iPhone

Go into the Yahoo! Mail Sent folder and confirm that the mail that you are trying to send is there.

-- Check the setting for getting new messages automatically

Your Yahoo! Mail is instantly transferred to iPhone as it arrives at the Yahoo! server. Send a message to your Yahoo! Mail account and look for it on the iPhone.

-- Check the setting that makes Yahoo! Mail your default email account

Click this link How do I set Yahoo! Mail on my iPhone as the default email account? and read the article for details.

-- Delete and re-enter the Yahoo! Mail account in the iPhone Click these links:

How do I delete Yahoo! Mail account access on my iPhone? and How do I set up access to Yahoo! Mail on my iPhone?. Read the articles for deleting and setting up.

If you can’t sign in to Yahoo! Mail, please try to sign in to Yahoo.com and follow any instructions provided. If you are unable to sign-in to Yahoo.com, please click the “I can’t access my account” link below the “Sign In” button.

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