Access Yahoo Mail in Microsoft Outlook 2007
It's good to have options. Here's how to access your Yahoo Mail
account's messages in an external mail program like Microsoft Outlook
2007.
Step 1: Enabling POP in Yahoo Mail
Step 2: Setting up your Yahoo Mail account in Outlook 2007
http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_CLASSIC&locale=en_SG&id=SLN3216
- Select Tools | Account Settings.
- Click the E-mail tab.
- Click New.
- It's just below the tab label. - Click Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP.
- Click OK.
- Click Manually configure server settings or additional server types.
- Click Next.
- Click Internet E-mail.
- Click Next.
- Fill in the following information or take the action:
Label Information or action Your Name Your name or an alias name E-mail Address Your Yahoo! address — for example, jo.bloggs@yahoo.com Incoming mail server pop.mail.yahoo.com Outgoing mail server (SMTP) smtp.mail.yahoo.com User Name The first portion of your email address, for example, jo.bloggs@yahoo.com Password Your email account password. Remember password Select to avoid being asked for a password. Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) Make sure this is clear of a checkmark. - Click More Settings.
- Click Outgoing Server.
- Click My Outgoing Server requires SMTP Authentication.
- Click Advanced.
- Fill in the following information or take the action:
Label Information or action Outgoing server (SMTP) 465* Use the following type of encrypted connection SSL Incoming Server (POP3) 995 This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) Select Leave a copy of messages on the server Select **
Either way, you must enable either the SSL or TLS mode for the Outgoing SMTP server.
** This makes your emails accessible in Outlook and Yahoo Mail. - Click OK.
- Click Next.
- Click Finish.