Making Outlook Work with Your Yahoo Mail
Would you like to connect your Yahoo Mail account to Outlook so you can send, receive, and manage all your email in one place? If so, this article will show you how to make Outlook and Yahoo Mail play nicely together. Once you get this set up, You're really going to enjoy the practical benefits of being able to work with all your mail through one program. You will also enjoy being able to use Outlook's familiar interface for everything, rather than the mish-mash of different tool you face when you deal with each email account.
You can only use your Yahoo Mail with Outlook if you have a premium Yahoo Mail account. That means, you must use either:
- A Yahoo Mail Plus account ($19.99 per year)
- A Yahoo Business Email account ($9.95 per month)
Yahoo won't let you connect to Outlook or any mail reader besides their web-based one unless you are using one of their paid mail services. But its easy to convert a free Yahoo Mail account (the kind you probably have if you don't remember paying for the account) to a Mail Plus account is easy. This link opens a new window where you can upgrade your free account to a Mail Plus account. Be sure to return to this article once you have upgraded your account so we can configure Outlook to work with it. And don't worry. If you've already upgraded to a Yahoo Mail Plus account, the Mail Plus page will tell you that you don't need to upgrade.
The steps required to configure Yahoo Mail Plus and Yahoo Business Mail to work with Outlook are very similar. Before we go further with the configuration, you need to be aware of something. During the configuration process you will be telling the Yahoo mail servers not to keep copies of messages on the server once you view them with Outlook. Once that happens, you won't be able to read them anymore using the Yahoo Mail web interface. This is most likely the way you want things to work anyway, since having multiple versions of a message floating around will surely cause you confusion and frustration, and is something to be aware of.
Back to the configuration process…
…the detailed procedure you have to follow to complete the configuration depend on which version of Outlook you are working with. To make this as easy as possible, there are two completely separate procedures, one for Outlook 2007, and the other for earlier versions. In the interest of saving space and allowing the procedures to be updated as needed, the procedures are on the Living With Outlook (http://www.Living-With-Outlook.com) website rather than included in this article.
If you want to make Outlook 2007 work with your Yahoo Mail account, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#Configure2007Anchor
If you want to make a version of Outlook that's not Outlook 2007 work with your Yahoo Mail account, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#ConfigureOutlookAnchor
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