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, this article can show you how to make Outlook and Yahoo Mail play nicely together. Once you get this set up, You’re really going to like the practical benefits of being able to work with all your mail through one program. You’ll like being able to use Outlook’s familiar interface for all your work, instead of being stuck with a different way of doing things for each email account.
You can only use your Yahoo Mail with Outlook if you have a premium Yahoo Mail account. That means, you must be using 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 that most people start out with) to a Mail Plus account is simple. 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 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 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 keep copies of messages on the server once you view them with Outlook. This means they will not be visible from the Web once you read them with Outlook. 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 confusion and frustration, and is something to be aware of.
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 have. 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 (www.Living-With-Outlook.com) website rather than included in this article.
If you want to make Outlook 2007 work with your Yahoo Mail account, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#Configure2007Anchor
If you want to make a version of Outlook that’s not Outlook 2007 work with your Yahoo Mail account, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#ConfigureOutlookAnchor
