Learn How You Can Use Yahoo Mail And Outlook Together
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 you would, 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 practical benefits of having all your email in one place. You’ll also enjoy being able to use Outlook’s familiar interface for everything, instead of being stuck with a different way of doing things for each account.
You can only use your Yahoo Mail with Outlook if you have a premium Yahoo Mail account. In other words, you must use 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. But its easy to convert a free Yahoo Mail account (the kind you probably have if you don’t remember paying for the account) to a Mail Plus account is easy. This link 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 it. 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 almost the same. But before we talk about that, 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. This means they will not be visible from the Web once you read them with Outlook. Under normal circumstances, this is the way you want things to work anyway, since having more than one copy of a message in existence at one time will surely cause you confusion and frustration, 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 exact steps you follow to complete the configuration depend on which version of Outlook you are working with. To make this as easy as possible, there are two completely separate procedures, one for Outlook 2007, and the other for earlier versions. In the interest of saving space and allowing the procedures to be updated as needed, the procedures are listed 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 this Yahoo Outlook connection page.
If you want to make a version of Outlook that’s not Outlook 2007 work with your Yahoo Mail account, go to this section of the Yahoo Outlook connection page.