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Learn How You Can Use Yahoo Mail and Outlook Together

December 26, 2009

Do you have a Yahoo Mail account you would like to or need to use with Outlook? If you would, you’ve come to the right place. This article can show you the steps you need to follow to get Outlook and Yahoo Mail working together. I think you will really enjoy the practical benefits of having all your email in one place. 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 email account.

You can only use your Yahoo Mail with Outlook if you have a premium Yahoo Mail account. That means, you must have either:

  • A Yahoo Mail Plus account ($19.99 per year)
  • A Yahoo Business Email account ($9.95 per month)

Yahoo won’t let you connect to Outlook or any mail reader besides their web-based one unless you are using one of their paid mail services. However, converting a free Yahoo Mail account (the kind that most people start out with) to a Mail Plus account isn’t hard at all. http://mailplus.mail.yahoo.com/ opens a new window where you can upgrade your free account to a Mail Plus account. 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 very similar. 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. Once that happens, you won’t be able to read the downloaded messages anymore using the Yahoo Mail web interface. Under normal circumstances, this is 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 exact steps you follow during the configuration process 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. To keep this article from getting gigantic (and to make it easy to update the procedures should they need to change), 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

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