How to Use Yahoo Mail Together with Outlook
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 how to make Outlook and Yahoo Mail play nicely together. Once you get this set up, You’re really going to like the convenience of having access to all your mail messages through one program. You’ll benefit from 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 own separately.
You can only use your Yahoo Mail with Outlook if you have a premium Yahoo Mail account. That means, you have to 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. 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/ will open a new window that walks you through the Mail Plus upgrade process. Close the new window once you’re done with the upgrade 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. Before we go further with the configuration, you need to be aware of something. During the configuration process 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 to set things up, 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.
Back to the configuration process…
…the exact steps you follow during the configuration process 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 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
To learn how to configure earlier versions of Outlook with Yahoo Mail, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#ConfigureOutlookAnchor
