Making Outlook Work with Your Yahoo Mail Account

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 will show you the steps you need to follow to make Outlook and Yahoo Mail play nicely together. Once you get this set up, You’re really going to enjoy the convenience of being able to work with all your mail in one place. You’ll also like being able to use Outlook’s familiar interface for everything, rather than the mish-mash of different tool you face when you deal with each account you own separately.

Unfortunately, you can’t use a free Yahoo Mail account with Outlook. You must! have a premium Yahoo Mail account. In other words, you have to 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/ will open 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 your Yahoo Mail Plus account. 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 steps required to configure Yahoo Mail Plus and Yahoo Business Mail to work with Outlook are 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 retain copies of messages on the sever once Outlook downloads them so you can read them. Once that happens, you won’t be able to read them anymore using the Yahoo Mail web interface. Under normal circumstances, this is 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 exact steps you follow during the configuration process depend on the particular 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 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