How to Forward Yahoo Mail to Hotmail
Most, if not all, email providers that provide email forwarding rely on the Post Office Protocol (POP3) platform. This is no different with Windows Live Hotmail. If you have a Yahoo! account and you would like your emails forwarded to your Hotmail account, you can enable this feature in Hotmail. However, since the free Yahoo! Mail account does not support POP3, you must have a Yahoo! Mail Plus account. As of July 2010, Yahoo! offers a one-year Yahoo! Mail Plus subscription of $19.99.
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Instructions
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Upgrade your Yahoo! Mail account by visiting the “Yahoo! Mail Plus” page (see Resources), clicking on “Upgrade now” and then following the prompts.
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Sign in to your Windows Live Hotmail account and then select the “Add an e-mail account” link located under the “Manage folders” link.
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Type your Yahoo! Mail Plus email address and password in the “Email address” and “Password” fields, respectively and then click on the “Advanced options” link.
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Provide your Yahoo! Mail Plus user name (your Yahoo email address without the “@yahoo.com”) in the “POP3 user name” field.
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Enter “plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com” in the “incoming mail server” box and then choose “995” as the “Port” if not already selected.
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Check the “This server requires a secure connection (SSL)” check box. If you would like to keep copies of your emails in your Yahoo inbox, choose the “Leave a copy of my messages on the server.”
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Click “Next” and then choose how you would like Hotmail to handle incoming emails.
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If you would like to create a special folder for mails received from your Yahoo! Mail Plus account, choose the “A separate folder, called:” radio button and then modify the folder name; leave the box unchanged if you would like to name the folder as displayed.
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Choose the “Your inbox” radio button if you would like the emails forwarded directly into your Hotmail inbox.
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Apply the settings by clicking “Save.” You can now receive emails sent to your Yahoo! address directly in your Hotmail account.
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