How to Set Up Yahoo Mail to Run With Microsoft Outlook
A Yahoo! Mail Plus account is required to configure and use your Yahoo! account in Microsoft Outlook. This is because the free Yahoo! Mail account does not support Post Office Protocol (POP3), the platform used by Outlook to retrieve email messages from Yahoo! servers. In addition to supporting POP3, Yahoo! Mail Plus also provides you with additional features, such as Yahoo! AddressGuard and email forwarding. Yahoo! AddressGuard protects your account by providing you with disposable email addresses.
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Instructions
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Purchase Yahoo! Mail Plus subscription, which as of April 2010 was $19.99 for one year, by vising the homepage (see Resources), clicking on the "Upgrade Now" button, entering your Yahoo credentials, and then following the prompts.
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Launch Outlook 2007 and then choose "Account settings" from the "Tools" pull down menu.
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Click on the "Email" tab and then select "New." Select "Manually configure server settings or additional server types" and then select choose "Next."
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Choose "Internet E-mail," click "Next" and then select "POP3" from the "Account type" sub menu.
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Type your name and your Yahoo! email address in the "Your Name" and "Email Address" boxes, respectively, and then enter "plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com" and "smpt.mail.yahoo.com" in the "Incoming mail server" and "Outgoing mail Server" fields.
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Enter your Yahoo! username (your email address without the "@" sign) and password in the "Username" and "Password" boxes and then select the "Remember password" check box.
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Click on the "More Settings" button and then select the "Outgoing Server" tab. Check the "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication" check box and then select "Use same settings as my incoming mail server."
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Click on the "Advanced" tab, enter "995" and "465" in the POP3 and SMTP port number boxes. Select the "This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)" check boxes under both sections.
If you would like to leave downloaded emails in your Yahoo! account, check the "Leave a copy of messages on the server" check box.
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Click "OK" and then select "Next," The Congratulations window appears.
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Choose "Finish" and then select "Close." You can now use your Yahoo! account in Outlook.
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