How Do I Setup Yahoo! Mail for Outlook 2007?

Email is a vital component of business communication

Yahoo Mail is an Internet-based email service. You access your mail box and read, send, and manage your messages through a web browser such as Internet Explorer. Outlook is an email and contact management utility, and a version is available with the Office 2007 suite of programs. If you use Outlook to connect to an email server to download and send emails, and to centralize an address book of contacts, you might want to configure Outlook to download your Yahoo Mail messages so all of your emails can be stored and managed from one program interface.

Things You'll Need

• Yahoo Mail account
• Yahoo POP3 server name
• Yahoo POP3 server IP address
• Office 2007 suite

Instructions

1. Click "Start" then click "All Programs" to display a list of all the programs installed on the computer. Select "Outlook" to open the Outlook program window.

2. Click "Tools" then select "Account Settings" from the drop-down list. This opens the Account Settings window. Click the "New" button to create a new account. This starts the "Add New E-mail Account" wizard. Select the "Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP" radio button on the "Choose E-mail Service" page. Click "Next."

3. Click the "Manually configure server settings or additional server types" check box on the "Auto Account Setup" page to select this option. Click the "Next" button to display the "Choose E-mail Service" page.

4. Select the "Internet E-mail" radio button then click "Next" to display the "Internet E-mail Settings" page.
   Fill in the information required on this page. This includes your name and email address, and the names of the Yahoo incoming (POP3) email server and the Yahoo outgoing (SMTP) server. The "Logon Information" required is your Yahoo Mail email address and your Yahoo account password. Click "More Settings" to open the "Internet E-mail Settings" pop-up window.

5. Select the "Advanced" tab in the "Internet E-mail Settings." Configure the "Server Port Numbers" options as follows:
   Incoming Server (POP3) = 995
   This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) = click the check box to select this option.
   Outgoing server (SMTP) = 465
   Use the following type of encrypted connection = select "SSL" from the drop-down list.
   Click the "Outgoing Server" tab.

6. Configure the settings on the "Outgoing Server" tab as follows:
   My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication = click the check box to select this option.
   Use the same settings as my incoming mail server = click the radio button to select this option.

   Click "OK" to return to the "Internet E-mail Settings" page.

7. Click the "Test Account Settings" button. Outlook will connect to your email servers to check that the information you have configured is valid and that you can send and receive emails. Click "Next" and on the "Congratulations!" page, click "Finish." Outlook will now download emails sent to your Yahoo Mail account.

Tips & Warnings

• Copy the POP3 and SMTP server names from Yahoo Mail's information pages and paste them into the configuration windows in Outlook when requested (Step 4) to ensure accuracy.

• The names of the POP3 and SMTP servers have to be typed in accurately or connections to them will fail. Emails will not be retrieved or sent.

• Type your Yahoo account password carefully as this is a common cause of failure.

References

• Kimhoe: How to set up Yahoo Mail in Outlook 2007
• Living With Outlook: Configuring Outlook 2007 to work with Yahoo Mail

Resources

• Tech Bliss Online: Yahoo POPe and SMTP settings