Getting Outlook to Work with Your Yahoo Mail

Do you have a Yahoo Mail account you would like to or need to use with Outlook? If so, you’ve come to the right place. This article can 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 like the practical benefits of being able to work with all your mail through one program. You will like 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 must use 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. However, converting 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. 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 steps required to configure Yahoo Mail Plus and Yahoo Business Mail to work with Outlook are very similar. But before we talk about that, there’s one thing you should know. 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 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 are working with. To keep things simple, there are two 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

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