So, i was tired of using the browser to log in to yahoo mail to check and organize my emails. I have more than 1 yahoo mail account and logging out/in is very tedious. So I was thinking, how to connect my Microsoft Outlook to Yahoo Mail. I had a very hard time looking for a way to do it but then, i was able to do it anyways. So below are the steps I did.
Step 1
- Open your yahoo mail. Go to
Settings -
Accounts -
Accounts and click edit.
Under the Access your Yahoo Mail elsewhere option, be sure click POP and the
Download spam with no special indicators.
Step 2
- Open Microsoft Outlook. Create an account if you don't have one.
If you see this menu, put in the following:
Your Name: Name of the account
Email Address: Yahoo email address
Account Type: Always POP3
Incoming mail server: pop3.mail.yahoo.com
Outgoing mail server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
User Name: Yahoo email address
Password: Yahoo email password
* Remember password checked
Step 3
- Once all is filled up, click
More Settings. Under
Outgoing Server, click
My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication -
Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
Step 4
- Go to
Advanced tab,
Incoming server (POP3) should use port
995 and check
This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL).
-
Outgoing server (SMTP) port should be
465 and change
Use the following type of encrypted connection to
SSL
Step 5
- Run Outlook, press
Send/Receive and you are done.
All of your emails will now be synced from Yahoo Mail to Outlook. You can now then create rules that will suit your needs. Good thing about this is you will have a copy of all your emails on your computer. Archive it to have a backup.
Note: If you add two Yahoo Mail account, Outlook will combine them in Inbox. So it is better to have a rule to separate the email from one account to another.
So that it! :) Ciao!
