Comments on: The Yahoo Outlook 2010 Connection

By: bill

bill — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:59:29 +0000

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

By: Anil

Anil — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:55:00 +0000

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?

By: bill

bill — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:51:18 +0000

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

By: herron

herron — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:23:32 +0000

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

By: bill

bill — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:10:12 +0000

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

By: George

George — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:21:12 +0000

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

By: bill

bill — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:05:50 +0000

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

By: j

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:46:09 +0000

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!!!

By: bill

bill — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:28:35 +0000

Joey,

That’s great to hear. I haven’t tried the setup you have. My Yahoo mail goes to a hosted Exchange server, and I connect everything to that. Connecting a smartphone like you have adds a little twist to things since Yahoo mail seems to work differently for smartphones versus desktop devices.

Thanks for updating us on your progress.

–Bill

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:48:30 +0000

Hi Bill,

I think I figured it out. I should have been paying attention to the options I was selecting rather than just blindly copying your instructions. I made the tweaks needed, and it seems to be working . . . . at least so far, so good.

Thanks again for your great instructions.