Let’s talk about how to make a Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection. That is, let’s go through the process of setting up a Yahoo Mail account and Outlook 2010 to work together. Creating a Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection like this can make life much simpler, since it lets you work with all of your mail in one place.

Now here’s an important point: You can only make the Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection if you have a premium Yahoo mail account. In other words, you must 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 don’t worry. This is easy to fix.

Convert Your Yahoo Mail Account to Yahoo! Mail Plus

Converting a free Yahoo account to a Mail Plus account is easy and inexpensive at less than $1.67 a month.

THIS LINK opens a new window that walks you through the Mail Plus upgrade process. Be sure to return to this page once you have upgraded your account so we can configure a Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection to work with it.

Whether you choose to use Yahoo! Mail Plus or Yahoo! Business Mail, the steps needed to make the Outlook Yahoo connection are almost the same. The following section walks you through the process:

NOTE: As part of the process for setting up a Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection, you will tell 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 things to work anyway (having multiple versions of a message floating around is a recipe for confusion), but is something to be aware of.

Configure Your Yahoo Outlook 2010 Connection

We are going to set up our Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection manually to be sure we get everything exactly the way we want it. The procedure is similar, but not identical to configuring earlier versions of Outlook. Please follow these steps to get Outlook configured:

1. In the Outlook main window, click “File,” then “Information,” then “Add Account” This opens the Auto Account Setup screen.
2. Set the “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” checkbox and click “Next” to go to the Choose Service screen.



3. Select “Internet E-mail,” then click “Next” to go to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.

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4. Enter your name as you want it to appear in messages in the Your Name field.
5. Enter your full Mail Plus address (user@yahoo.com) or Business Mail address (for example, user@yourdomain.com) in the E-mail Address field.
6. Select “POP3″ in the Account Type list.
7. For a Mail Plus account, enter “plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com” in the Incoming mail server (POP3) field and “plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com” in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.
8. For a Business Mail account, enter “pop.bizmail.yahoo.com” in the Incoming mail server field and “smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com” in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.
9. Enter your Yahoo user name in the User Name field. For a Mail Plus account, enter your mail address without the “@yahoo.com”. For a Business Mail account, enter your mail address including the “@yourdomain.com”.
10. Enter your Yahoo Mail password in the Password field.
11. Set the “Remember password” check box if you don’t want to have to enter your password manually each time Outlook checks your mail.
12. Make sure that the check box next to “Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)” is CLEARED.
13. Under the “Deliver new messages to” heading, select “New Outlook Data File” to store your Yahoo messages separate from your other messages. The messages will appear in the Inbox just like all the rest of your Outlook mail, but won’t be stored with your other (corporate?) messages on the server.



14. Click “More Settings” to open the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.
15. Click the “Outgoing Server” tab.



16. Set the “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” check box.
17. Select “Use same settings as my incoming mail server.”
18. Click the “Advanced” tab.



19. Clear the “Leave a copy of messages on the server” checkbox.
20. Enter 995 in the Incoming server (POP3) box.
21. Set the “This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)” checkbox under Incoming server (POP3).
22. Enter 465 in the Outgoing server (SMTP) box.
23. Select “SSL” in the “Use the following type of encrypted connection” box under Outgoing server (SMTP)
24. Click “OK” to return to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.
25. Click “Test Account Settings.” The Test Account Settings dialog box appears and Outlook sends a test message using the settings you have just entered. If the test was successful, a Congratulations! message appears in the dialog box. Click Close to close this dialog box. If you didn’t see the Congratulations! message, go back through this procedure from the top to check all your settings.
26. Click “Next.” then “Finish.”

Now you’re ready to go. You should have a functional Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection, and Outlook should start downloading mail from your Yahoo account.

Now that you have your Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection set up, you can learn more about using Outlook & Yahoo Mail together, by visiting this Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection page.

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