Using Outlook with your Yahoo! Mail

Step 1: Configuration of your Yahoo! account

• 1. Go to your Tools menu and choose “Email Accounts”
• 2. Select “Add a new email account” and click “Next”
• 3. Select “POP3” and click “Next”
• 4. Hence, go to the “User Information” section to type in your full name in the field labeled “Your Name”.
• 5. In the other field labeled “Email address”, enter your whole email address (e.g. johnsmith@outlookemail.com)
• 6. Then, go to the “Server Information” section and in the field labeled “Incoming mail server (POP3)”, enter the server name that matches your email address (e.g. If your email address is johnsmith@yahoo.com, type in “pop.mail.yahoo.com” in the “Incoming mail server (POP3)” section. Consequently, if you are registered at yahoo.co.uk, type in “pop.mail.yahoo.uk” in the “Incoming mail server (POP3)” section).
• 7. In the field labeled “outgoing mail server (SMTP), enter the server name that matches your email address. (e.g. If your email address is johnsmith@yahoo.com, type in “smtp.mail.yahoo.com” in the “Outgoing mail server (SMTP)” section. Consequently, if you are registered at yahoo.co.uk, type in “smtp.mail.yahoo.uk” in the “Outgoing mail server (SMTP)” section).
• 8. When done, go to the “Logon information” section and in the field labeled “User name”, enter your current Yahoo! username only (e.g. johnsmith).
• 9. In the field labeled “Password”, enter your current password and check the option “Remember password”.

Step 2: Check that the account is working

• 1. Under the section labeled “Test Account Settings”, choose this option. If any required information is missing, you will be told so and called to enter them correctly.
• 2. Hence, choose the option “More Settings”
• 3. Go to the “General” tab and in field labeled “Mail Account”, enter “Yahoo! Mail”
• 4. Hence, select the “Outgoing Server” tab and check the option labeled “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication”.
• 5. When done, choose “Next” and click “Finish”