Set Up Yahoo! Free Email in Outlook 2007
There are a lot of articles and videos circulating about how to set up Yahoo! POP3 email accounts in Outlook 2007, Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook Express, etc. Yahoo! requires users to pay for a premium subscription to have POP3 access. Most of these proposed solutions are a bit dated as of the time of this writing, and almost all of them involve changing your regional or location settings to Yahoo! Asia. None of these seem to work any more; my settings didn't even have Yahoo! Asia as an option. Besides, who wants to pay to have Yahoo! email offline on your computer when it is free on the Yahoo! Mail web site, and even on your mobile phone?
Maybe Yahoo! has grown wise to the situation by now, or the 2011 Google issues with China has, let's say, "adjusted" the Internet relationship between the United States and China (a large part of Asia). Whatever the case may be, in the Northeastethern US, changing any of the POP3 settings in the Yahoo! Mail web interface hasn't worked.
The good news is that Outlook 2007 supports IMAP as well as POP3 email setups. This article provides an alternate way to set up Yahoo! within Outlook 2007 that does work. It involves using IMAP mail settings, instead of POP3. IMAP synchronizes content with the server better anyway...
- Open Outlook 2007 and navigate to Tools > Options and select the Mail Setup tab. Click on the E-mail Accounts button:
- On the Account Settings page, click New...
- Make sure Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP is selected, and click Next:
- On the Add New E-mail Account page, check the box next to Manually configure server settings or additional server types, and click the Next button:
- On the Choose E-mail Service page, select Internet E-mail and click Next:
- On the next page, enter the following info, where Your Name is the name you want to appear in emails you send, and YourYahooID is your full Yahoo! email address. Don't forget to select the Remember Password check box. Don't click on Next just yet. Click the More Settings button:
- Select the Outgoing Server tab, and check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. Make sure that Use same settings as my incoming mail server is selected:
- Now select the Advanced tab, and enter the information as it appears below:
- Now click on OK to close the Advanced settings, then click on the Test Account Settings... button:
- You should see a window open entitled Test Account Settings; Outlook will try to test the Send and Receive settings, and display the results:
- Both tests should have green check marks next to them and say Completed. If not, go back and check your server settings in steps 6, 7 and 8 above.
- If everything worked as it should, click Next and then Finish. You can then close the Accounts and E-mail Options windows.
Enjoy using Yahoo! email in Outlook 2007! Hopefully this helps someone else who's frustrated with trying to set up Yahoo! in their Outlook 2007 client.
-Dan
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Thank you so much – I was struggling to get yahoo mail to work and with the exception that I had to use 995 instead of 993 – this worked for me! You Rock for helping!!
config work perfect,able to send ,but unable to receive!!!!!?
Make sure no other devices, computers or apps (mobile phone?) are connected to try and get messages. Yahoo! is picky.
Also, verify the port and authentication options are correct as shown. If it all looks OK, I would delete the account in Outlook 2007 and re-create it from scratch. 🙂
Could you please help, Sent folder works fine but I can’t receive emails on my Inbox
Please review all the settings in the screen shots and comments above. You might try deleting the account in Outlook and starting over.
Mine still works fine with these settings…?
This website http://www.setup-outlook.com may also be useful since it shows you how to setup any email with any version of outlook.
Hope it helps!
Thanks, but unfortunately, that site only provides instructions on how to setup POP email for Yahoo!, for which you need Yahoo! Mail Plus.
This is a PAID service.
The intent here is to access your Yahoo! mail via IMAP for free. 😉
Thank you so much for the port, my Yahoo has configures fine – runs alittle slow when deleting item but good to have all emails in one place. Huge THANK YOU!
doh – post, I meant post!
You’re more than welcome. Glad it works for you. 🙂
Thank you finally found the correct settings.
Yahoo states NO POP Allowed unless its PAID.
FIXED
Thank you
Worked great, many thanks!
When i configure outlook as above it show this error
Send test e-mail message: Cannot find the e-mail server. Verify the server information in your account properties.
How to resolve it???
I would suggest verifying the settings closely (especially the account , server name, port, sign in security and credentials), try using just your Yahoo ID (not e mail address), or delete the account in Outlook and start from the beginning again.
Many have this working… 🙂
Thank you so much!!! First thing that really worked!
Dan, your solution was “spot on”. It really worked. I tried all the other solutions for using Yahoo on Outlook and yours was the only one that worked.
Thanks
Glad this helped you 🙂
Thanks a lot. This article was very useful.