How You Can Use Yahoo Mail And Outlook Together

Would you like to connect your Yahoo Mail account to Outlook so you can send, receive, and manage all your email in one place? If so, you’ve come to the right place. This article will show you the steps you need to follow to make Outlook and Yahoo Mail play nicely together. I think you will really like the convenience of being able to work with all your mail in one place. You’ll also enjoy being able to use Outlook’s familiar interface for all your work, instead of being stuck with a different way of doing things for each email account.

Unfortunately, you can’t use a free Yahoo Mail account with Outlook. You must! have a premium Yahoo Mail account. That means, you have to 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 isn’t hard at all. This link 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 your Yahoo Mail Plus account. 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 almost the same. 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 retain copies of messages on the sever once Outlook downloads them so you can read them. 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 things to work anyway, since having more than one copy of a message in existence at one time 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 during the configuration process depend on which version of Outlook you are working with. To keep things simple, there are two completely 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.

If you want to make Outlook 2007 work with your Yahoo Mail account, go to this Yahoo Outlook connection page.

To learn how to configure earlier versions of Outlook with Yahoo Mail, go to this section of the Yahoo Outlook connection page.