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Yahoo mail for “phantom traffic” of Windows Mobile 7 is responsible

The blogger Rafael Rivera will have discovered that Yahoo Mail is unusually high for the data usage of smartphones responsible with Windows Phone 7. Microsoft has now confirmed to the Windows Phone Secrets Blog, that there is a problem with synchronization between the e-mail client of Windows Mobile 7 and Yahoo are e-mail service.

“This error can cause the data usage is higher than expected,” says a statement issued by Microsoft. Man working on a fix along with Yahoo, which will be rolled out in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, affected users to sync Yahoo mail only manually and include only messages from a period of seven days for example. By default every two hours, all messages are synchronized over the past two weeks.

Microsoft has also found a bug that affects users of Exchange ActiveSync. It can lead to messages being sent to an invalid e-mail address or the size constraints of an e-mail server exceed stuck in the Outbox. Users should delete these messages. A patch for this problem would be made available at short notice, Microsoft said.

In early January the software giant announced an investigation into the unusually high volume of data of some Windows-7-phone devices. Especially users from the United States reported that their phone send out every day 30-50 MB of data. In another forum post was 2 to 5 MB per hour, the speech.

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