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 can show you how to get Outlook and Yahoo Mail working together. I think you will really enjoy the convenience of being able to work with all your mail in one place. You’ll benefit from being able to use Outlook’s familiar interface for all your work, rather than the mish-mash of different tool you face when you deal with each email account.

Unfortunately, you can’t use a free Yahoo Mail account with Outlook. You must! have a premium Yahoo Mail account. In other words, you have to be using either:

  • A Yahoo Mail Plus account ($19.99 per year)
  • A Yahoo Business Email account ($9.95 per month)

Yahoo won’t let you connect to Outlook or any mail reader besides their web-based one unless you are using one of their paid mail services. However, converting a free Yahoo Mail account (the kind you probably have if you don’t remember paying for the account) to a Mail Plus account is simple. http://mailplus.mail.yahoo.com/ opens a new window that walks you through the Mail Plus upgrade process. Close the new window once you’re done with the upgrade 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 steps required to configure Yahoo Mail Plus and Yahoo Business Mail to work with Outlook are very similar. But before we talk about that, there’s one thing you should know. As part of the process for configuring Yahoo mail with Outlook 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. Under normal circumstances, this is the way you want to set things up, since having more than one copy of a message in existence at one time will surely cause you headaches, and is something to be aware of. Just don’t be surprised the first time you open the Yahoo Mail web interface and can’t find messages that you are sure you saw in Outlook.

With that out of the way, let’s move on to the configuration process, The exact steps you follow to complete the configuration depend on the particular version of Outlook you have. To make this as easy as possible, there are two completely separate procedures, one for Outlook 2007, and the other for earlier versions. In the interest of saving space and allowing the procedures to be updated as needed, the procedures are on the Living With Outlook (http://www.Living-With-Outlook.com) website rather than included in this article.

To learn how to configure Outlook 2007 and Yahoo Mail, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#Configure2007Anchor

To learn how to configure earlier versions of Outlook with Yahoo Mail, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#ConfigureOutlookAnchor