MS Outlook has emerged as one of the widely used email client in recent past and the reasons are its versatility, security, and robustness. It proves to be convenient mailing platform for the users as it provides access to your mails even when you are not online. These factors raise the need in Yahoo users & other email client users to switch to MS Outlook. The following instructions and settings will help you to easily configure Outlook with Yahoo! Mail.
1. Open Outlook 2013 and select "File".
2. Then below the Account Information, click "Add Account" button.
3. Select "Manual Select or Additional Server Types" and Click on "Next"
4. In Choose Service "select POP and Click on Next".
5. On POP Account Settings page enter your account settings as follows:
6. Go to "More Settings".
7. Select the "Outgoing Server tab".
8. On the same window select Advanced Option and enter the following information:
9. Click "OK".
10. You can close the window and click "Next".
11. You will see a You're All Set message and Click Finish.
12. Restart Outlook and Select Send/Receive All Folders from the top.
From now on you'll be able to receive all your Yahoo Emails in Your MS Outlook 2013 Account.
Answer: You can configure your MS Outlook with Yahoo by both IMAP and POP3 server. For configuring it with IMAP server you just need to make some small changes from Step 5.
On IMAP Account Settings page enter your account settings as follows:
6. Go to More Settings.
7. Select the Outgoing Server tab
8. On the same window select Advanced Option and enter the following information:
9. Click "OK".
10.The rest of the steps will remain the same as in POP3 server.
Answer: Sometimes it happens that your Yahoo inbox contains some spam, malicious or other corrupted messages. Outlook will not import such messages from your Yahoo account. You can try a few things to resolve this issue:
Conclusion: The steps required for configuring your MS Outlook account with Yahoo have been mentioned. For making the process error free and smooth, one needs to carefully implement the steps that have been provided. Expending upon requirement, POP3 or IMAP server access can be availed and configuration can be done following simple steps.