On Tuesday Microsoft confirmed that a Yahoo email (IMAP) inefficiency was the root of a data bug affecting Windows Phone 7 users. Today, that same bug is believed to extend to iPhone users with Yahoo email accounts, here’s the scoop.
If you use an iPhone and setup a Yahoo email account (IMAP), chances are your phone is suffering from a phantom data bug. The bug was first uncovered by Windows Phone 7 users who, with the help of Microsoft, pin pointed excessive data usage to their Yahoo email accounts. Yahoo quickly fired back, citing Microsoft’s IMAP implementation on Windows Phone 7 to blame.
The iPhone was added to the discussion following further investigation by programmer Rafael Rivera. After testing an IMAP script which pulled mail from a text inbox, Rivera was able to demonstrate that the bug manifested itself on both Windows Phone 7 and iOS.
In case you were wondering whether the “push” email feature has anything to do with data bug, Rivera latest comment reads, “this has nothing to do with PUSH email”. It appears that Yahoo has some explaining to do, for both Windows Phone 7 and iOS users.
With data caps being enforced increasingly on a global level, phantom data usage can be a costly effect. For now, forwarding your Yahoo (IMAP) email to a traditional Gmail account is an option, but hopefully a true fix is in the works.
via Within Windows
