A-PC-SW-How-To: Access Yahoo! Mail with Microsoft Outlook...

Yahoo! Mail is free web-based email service that you access through your browser. However you might prefer to setup your Microsoft Outlook email client to collect messages from your Yahoo account.

The following provides guidelines for the setup of Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft Outlook (versions 2003, 2007 and 2010).

How to use Microsoft Outlook 2010 to Receive Yahoo Email

Outlook 2010 is the latest version of the popular email from Microsoft. Tools are available that allow Windows Live or Hotmail accounts to be accessed via Outlook 2010, and Google Mail accounts can be easily accessed using the standard POP or IMAP methods. However Yahoo! uses a different method of storage and online access to its free email accounts - with the result that there is no way to access such an account other than via webmail.

In order to use Microsoft Outlook 2010 to receive Yahoo email, you will have to upgrade your Yahoo! Mail account to premium, and this is a chargable service. Once upgraded, you may go through the following steps to connect Outlook 2010 to Yahoo! Mail.

1. To setup Microsoft Outlook 2010 to receive Yahoo! email via POP, open the mail client and go to File > Info > Add account. Next, choose Manually configure server settings or additional server types.

2. Click Next to proceed, select Internet Email and click Next again. Use the following settings to configure your Yahoo! Mail account:

3. Incoming Mail (POP) settings:

a. POP server: plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com

b. Use SSL

c. Port: 995

4. Outgoing mail server (SMTP) settings:

a. SMTP server: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com

b. Use SSL

c. Port: 465

5. Use authentication

6. Credentials:

7. Account Name/Login Name: Your Yahoo! Mail ID (this is the same as your email address but without the "@yahoo.com")

8. Email Address: Your Yahoo! Mail address (for example, eiffel19@yahoo.com)

9. Password: Your Yahoo! Mail password

Once completed, your Yahoo! Mail account should be accessible via Outlook 2010. If not, you may need to wait a short time following migration of your email account.

How to use Microsoft Outlook 2007 to Receive Yahoo Email
Microsoft Outlook 2007 doesn’t require a premium Yahoo! Mail account in order to it. You need to download a small application called YPOPs. YPOPs is an application that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. YPOPs acts as a gateway between Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft Outlook. For those who opted for the new Yahoo Mail beta are good too to use this to access Yahoo! mail using Outlook. Download YPOPs from SourceForge.

You can download YPOPs fron here http://ypopsemail.com/

First, install YPOPs! and make sure it is running.

To fetch mail from and send mail through a Yahoo! Mail account in Outlook 2007:

1. Start Microsoft 2007. Click "Tools" in the toolbar and select "Account Settings." Go to the "Email" tab and click on "New." Choose "Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP" and click "Next."

2. Select the "Manually Configure Server Settings or Additional Server Types" check box and click "Next."

3. Enter your name in the "User Information" section. Enter your Yahoo Mail email address, including @yahoo.com.

4. Type "localhost" in the "Incoming mail server (POP3)" and "Outgoing mail server (SMTP)" fields.

5. Enter your Yahoo Mail user name without the "@yahoo.com" in the user name field. Type your Yahoo Mail password into the "Password" field. Select "Remember Password," then click the "More Settings" button.

6. Go to the "Outgoing Server" tab and select the "My Outgoing Server (SMTP) Requires Authentication" check box. Click "OK." Click "Next," then click "Finish."

How to use Microsoft Outlook 2003 to Receive Yahoo Email
Microsoft Outlook 2007 doesn’t require a premium Yahoo! Mail account in order to it. You need to download a small application called YPOPs. YPOPs is an application that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. YPOPs acts as a gateway between Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft Outlook. For those who opted for the new Yahoo Mail beta are good too to use this to access Yahoo! mail using Outlook. Download YPOPs from SourceForge.

You can download YPOPs fron here http://ypopsemail.com/

First, install YPOPs! and make sure it is running.

To retrieve mail from and send mail through a Yahoo! Mail account in Outlook 2003:

1. Start Microsoft 2003. Select Tools
E-Mail Accounts... from the menu.

2. Make sure Add a new e-mail account is selected.

3. Click Next >. Check POP3. Click Next >.

4. Type your name under Your Name:.

5. Enter your Yahoo! Mail address under E-mail Address:.

6. Type "localhost" under both Incoming mail server (POP3): and Outgoing mail server (SMTP):.

a. If "localhost" later turns out not to work, you can try "127.0.0.1" instead.

7. Type your Yahoo! ID under User Name. Enter your Yahoo! Mail password under Password.

8. Click More Settings ....

9. Go to the Outgoing Server tab.

10. Make sure My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked.

a. Leave Use same settings as my incoming mail server selected.

11. Click OK. Click Next >. Click Finish.

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