Updated February 18, 2012
How to Set Up a Yahoo Outlook Connection for Your Email
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. First, let’s talk about why you might want to do this.
NOTE: If you are using an earlier version of Outlook, you should follow the link at the end of this page to get instructions that cover that version.
Creating a Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection like this will make your life easier, since it lets you work with all of your mail in one place. Checking your mail in two different places makes no sense when you can get it all right in Outlook.
We’re almost ready to start. But before we go any further, here’s an important point: You can only make this 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)
- 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. And the benefits of a Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection make it worthwhile to do so.
Convert Your Yahoo Mail Account to Yahoo! Mail Plus to Enable the Yahoo Outlook 2010 Connection
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 Yahoo Outlook 2010 hookup 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:
- In the Outlook main window, click the File tab on the ribbon, then Info, then Add Account. This opens the Auto Account Setup screen.
- Set the Manually configure server settings or additional server types checkbox and click Next to go to the Choose Service screen.
- Select Internet E-mail, then click Next to go to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.
- Enter your name as you want it to appear in messages in the Your Name field.
- Enter your full Mail Plus address ([email protected]) or Business Mail address (for example, [email protected]) in the E-mail Address field.
- Select POP3 in the Account Type list.
- 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. 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.
- 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”.
- Enter your Yahoo Mail password in the Password field.
- Set the Remember password checkbox if you don’t want to have to enter your password manually each time Outlook checks your mail.
- Make sure that the checkbox next to Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) is CLEARED.
- 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.
- Click More Settings to open the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.
- Click the Outgoing Server tab.
- Set the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication checkbox.
- Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Clear the Leave a copy of messages on the server checkbox.
- Enter 995 in the Incoming server (POP3) box.
- Set the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) checkbox under Incoming server (POP3).
- Enter 465 in the Outgoing server (SMTP) box.
- Select SSL in the “Use the following type of encrypted connection” box under Outgoing server (SMTP)
- Click OK to return to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.
- 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. Your Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection is set up properly. 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.
- Click Next, then Finish.
NOTE: If the test shows that you can receive messages fine, but you can’t send them, the problem is often caused by factors outside the Yahoo Outlook 2010 POP3 connection you just set up. I’ve posted instructions for troubleshooting that kind of problem on the Can’t Send Email page.
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.
From here you can:
Return to the top of this Yahoo Outlook page.
Learn how to import your Yahoo Contacts to Outlook 2010.
Learn how to highlight Yahoo messages in your Inbox.
Go to our main Yahoo Outlook connection page.
Go to the main Outlook 2010 email accounts page.
Go to the Outlook 2010 home page.
Go to the instructions for setting up a Yahoo Mail Outlook connection for earlier versions of Outlook.
Find more info…
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Anil,
The POP3 connection between Yahoo and Outlook doesn’t allow for any kind of synchronization. It allows you to copy messages from Yahoo to Outlook, and delete the copies after reading them or not, but that’s it. There’s none of the synchronization you can get when you have an IMAP connection. It isn’t clear why Yahoo supports only POP3 connections to desktops and IMAP connections to mobile devices, but that’s the way they do things.
Sorry I can’t be of more help with this.
–Bill
I have a yahoo small business email which I setup in MS Outlook 2010 (POP3/SMTP) and left the option “Leave a copy of messages on the server” checked. I setup the same email in iPhone also using IMAP and SMTP. Now when I download the mails into my Outlook 2010, all messages shows as “UnRead” even if I read already in iPhone. Is there any way to synchronize between iPhone, Yahoo Mail Server and/or Outlook 2010?
Lee,
It appears that the last part of your message didn’t make it. But from what I do see here, it sounds like your account hasn’t been upgraded to Yahoo Mail Plus, or for some reason the upgrade process wasn’t finished at Yahoo’s end when you ran into this problem.
Have you upgraded your free Yahoo Mail account to a Yahoo Mail Plus account?
If so, can you check again to see if the connection is working now?
Let us know what you find.
Thanks.
–Bill
I’m not able to log on to the incoming mail server, says it rejected my log in, what m I do wrong. But it will allow me to send a test email th
Low Man,
I’m not a Mac guy so I don’t know all the details, but here’s what I’ve learned in my research. There is at least one program/service you can buy that claims to give you access to your Yahoo Mail on the Mac using the IMAP protocol. IMAP would map all your folders, and synchronize messages between Outlook and Yahoo. I’m assuming this service works by tricking Yahoo into thinking your Mac is a mobile device, because Yahoo does not support IMAP for desktops and laptops, but I’ve read that you can get IMAP on mobile devices.
There is a PC program that tries to do the same, but it has a reputation for being unreliable, which is not something you want to say about your email.
In short, POP3 is the only Yahoo authorized way of getting email from Yahoo Mail into PCs running Outlook or any other mail client, and that protocol doesn’t support things like folder sync.
I hope this helps.
–Bill
Maybe you can answer my question. I have setup my yahoo mail in my Outlook 2010 I can send and receive email just fine but how come my folders I have setup in my yahoo mail are not transfered with my filters and settings. I setup my yahoo mail on my Mac and all my folders were setup on my Mac mail why not Outlook 2010
The type of connection Yahoo uses doesn’t allow for changes you make in Outlook to be reflected in Yahoo. The POP3 connection they use allows you to download messages from Yahoo Mail into Outlook, and optionally delete those messages from the Yahoo mail servers as soon as Outlook grabs a copy of them. Typically, people set up their connection so the messages get deleted from Yahoo as soon as Outlook grabs a copy to eliminate the confusion of having two unsynchronized versions of every message.
There is no automated way to have a message remain on the Yahoo mail servers until you delete it from Outlook, then have it be similarly deleted from Yahoo. POP3 is an old, reliable technology, but it is built around the idea that you copy the mail into your email client (Outlook) and immediately delete it from the mail server (Yahoo).
Sorry I don’t have any better info for you.
–Bill
Hi there,
Such a userful Web Site! Thanks so much as it helped a lot. My question is this: I just set up Yahoo! email to load to outlook; however, it is loading it to a .pst file. What I want it to do is load to outlook and stay on the server until I move it into a .pst file/folder. Reason is that I want to delete items from Outlook and have them be deleted on the Yahoo! web-based email as well. Is this the correct approach? If so, how can I do this? I have searched the Web and can’t quite figure out how to do this.
Thanks so much!!!