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Making Outlook Work with A Yahoo Mail Account
By OnTopic | December 11, 2009
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, you’ve come to the right place. This article can show you the steps you need to follow to make Outlook and Yahoo Mail play nicely together. I think you will really enjoy the pleasure of having access to all your mail messages through one program. You’ll also benefit from being able to use Outlook’s familiar interface for all your work, rather than the mish-mash of different tool you face when you deal with each email account.
Unfortunately, you can’t use a free Yahoo Mail account with Outlook. You must! have a premium Yahoo Mail account. In other words, you must have either:
- A Yahoo Mail Plus account ($19.99 per year)
- A Yahoo Business Email account ($9.95 per month)
If you don’t have one of these account types, you cannot connect Yahoo Mail and Outlook. However, converting a free Yahoo Mail account (the kind that most people start out with) to a Mail Plus account isn’t hard at all. http://mailplus.mail.yahoo.com/ 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 your Yahoo Mail Plus account. 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 process of configuring both types of Yahoo Mail to work with Outlook is very similar. Before we go further with the configuration, there’s one thing you should know. As part of the process for configuring Yahoo mail with Outlook you will be telling the Yahoo mail servers not to retain copies of messages on the sever once Outlook downloads them so you can read them. 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 headaches, and is something to be aware of. Just don’t be surprised the first time you open the Yahoo Mail web interface and can’t find messages that you are sure you saw in Outlook.
With that out of the way, let’s move on 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 keep things simple, there are two separate procedures, one for Outlook 2007, and the other for earlier versions. To keep this article from getting gigantic (and to make it easy to update the procedures should they need to change), the procedures are on the Living With Outlook (http://www.Living-With-Outlook.com) website instead of right here.
To learn how to configure Outlook 2007 and Yahoo Mail, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#Configure2007Anchor
To learn how to configure earlier versions of Outlook with Yahoo Mail, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#ConfigureOutlookAnchor
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