How to Configure Outlook with Yahoo! Mail
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.
Steps to Configure Outlook 2013 with Yahoo
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:
- Your name: The name you want to display when you send mails
- Email address: Your Yahoo email address
- Account type: POP3
- Incoming Mail Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com
- Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- Username: Yahoo ID
- Password: Yahoo account password
- Do not check the Require logon using Secure Password Authentication box.
6. Go to "More Settings".
7. Select the "Outgoing Server tab".
- Click the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication box.
- Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server
8. On the same window select Advanced Option and enter the following information:
- Incoming server (POP): 995
- Outgoing server(SMTP): 465, 587 or 25
- Incoming server encrypted connection: SSL
- Set encryption type to SSL or TLS
- Set desired server timeouts of your choice.
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:
- Your name: The name you want to display when you send mails
- Email address: Your Yahoo email address
- Account type: IMAP
- Incoming Mail Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
- Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- Username: Yahoo ID
- Password: Yahoo account password
- Do not check the Require logon using Secure Password Authentication box.
6. Go to More Settings.
7. Select the Outgoing Server tab
- Click the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication box.
- Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
8. On the same window select Advanced Option and enter the following information:
- Incoming server (POP): 995
- Incoming server (IMAP): 993
- Outgoing server(SMTP): 587
- Incoming server encrypted connection: SSL
- Set encryption type to SSL or TLS
- Set desired server timeouts of your choice.
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:
- You can search for these kinds of messages. If found delete them and then try to configure your account.
- It is also recommended to clear your Spam and Trash folders in your Yahoo account.
- You can also transfer your inbox mails to a new folder and then configure your Outlook account. Only after getting successful with this transfer your new folder to Outlook. Outlook will automatically filter out all the spam and trash messages in its Junk folder.
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.
