How to access Yahoo! Mail using Microsoft Outlook
You can use Microsoft Outlook with many email accounts. Most Email providers such as Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Hotmail and many other providers provide free POP and SMTP access which allows you to use and integrate all your Email Accounts using Microsoft’s Outlook Express. The only exception is Yahoo’s Yahoo! Mail. In this day and age it is really unfortunate that Yahoo does not provide free POP and STMP access to the users of its free Yahoo! mail.
Note: Yahoo does provide free POP and SMTP access to its premium Yahoo! Mail Plus which requires a paid subscription. If you are one of those who has a Yahoo! mail Plus account, scroll down to the bottom of this article on how you can access Yahoo! Mail using Microsoft Outlook.
How to access Yahoo! Mail using Microsoft Outlook
Step 1: Download YPOPs
You need to download a small application called YPOPs. YPOPs is an application that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. YPOPs acts as a gateway between Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft Outlook. For those who opted for the new Yahoo Mail beta are good too to use this to access Yahoo! mail using Outlook. Download YPOPs from SourceForge.
Step 2: Install YPOPs.
When configuring YPOPs, while the default settings are pretty good, I like to customize them a bit.
* In Receiving Email, under download Email Category, I choose to select just Unread email to download so that I won’t download all the hundreds of emails I have.
* In Sending Email, I check Save email in Yahoo’s Sent Items Folder
* In Miscellaneous, it is good to check Automatically start YPOPs! when Windows starts so that you don’t have to worry about launching it everytime you launch Microsoft Outlook.
Step 3: Configure Microsoft Outlook to access Yahoo! Mail
* For Microsoft Outlook 2003, Go to Tools –> Email Accounts. Select Add a new email account. Click Next. Check POP3 and click on Next
* For Microsoft Outlook 2007, go to Tools –> Account Settings and under Email click New… Under Add a new Email Account select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP. Then under Add new Email account, check Manually configure server settings or additional server types
* Type your name under Your Name
* Type in your Yahoo! Mail address under Email Address which is the full youremail@yahoo.com
* Under Incoming mail server (POP3) type in localhost. (If localhost does not work type in 127.0.0.1 instead)
* Under Outgoing mail server (SMTP) type in localhost. (If localhost does not work type in 127.0.0.1 instead)
* Under Username type in your Yahoo! Mail address. For example if your email address is asmith2233@yahoo.com, then type in asmith2233. Enter your Yahoo! Mail password and check remember the password
* Click More settings. Under Outgoing Server tab check My outgoing server(SMTP) requires authentication
* Click OK and then Next and then click Finish
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I could connect to the server but it can not send the test message anyone has any idea ?
I keep getting error on sending email also In outlook 2007
I am using Windows and m also receiving the same error message. i have configured it as suggested using loads of combinations. perhaps its not designed for microsoft Outlook 2007
I am using outlook 203 & ypops 9.5.4 version ….
I am not getting any error but not able to send the mails.
but i am receiving the mails properly.
Do anyone have any idea whats going on ?
hi guys
those who have problems in accesing yahoo mails in outlook.
pls read the details carefully
open ur yahoo mail box
then the right corner u can see the options
click there
then the left pane u can see mail and account so and so
click mail
there if u see pop and frowarding u r lucky
edit the pop and forward column
those who have problem to recv the mails to outlooktry it out
good luck
after that u can configure in outlook ur yahoo account as everybody mentioned above
good luck
i used it but it did not worked, i am using outlook 2007. i also tried from my yahoomail for the pop and forwarding but stil nothing.i tried all the sample settings ..didnt worked .pls help
Hello All,
Yesterday I doing RnD with Ypops & free yahoo and come up with a solution. Even if I am not switching to the classical view of yahoo mail then also my outlook express 2003 is able to send/receive the mails.
Let me tell you what other settings you have to do than the above suggestions.
1. In ypops : set the port number 995 for POP3.
2. In Outlook express 2003:
- pop.mail.yahoo.com (POP3 server)
- smtp.mail.yahoo.com (SMTP server)
- In “More setting” , go to “outgoing server” tab and check “My out going server….” ,”Log on using” and fill the username & pasword and also check remember password.
- On advance tab , check “Incoming server POP3″ and set port # 995.
- Do not check the “Outgoing server SMTP”
- Test the account settings.
and now enjoy with outlook & ypops…
Good Luck guys
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For those that get a password error you should go to your internet explorer “tools” “options” and open the “Security” tab and check your log on settings by clicking on the internet site custom settings button. at the bottom there are choices as to how your pc deals with authentification. If you want to log onto a server then you surely don’t want to override your outlook setting by sending your pc username and password. It would be a good idea to log on automatically only on your intranet . Your intranet is your local network whtch is the private network addresses assigned to your in home network only., That is, just the pc’s in your house. Another cause can be you once answered yes to saving your password on IE. Saved passwords override any password you currently enter. good luck
This may be a little deep and a shot in the dark but for authentication problems with remote sites you should take into consideration that your not on the same domain that there servers are on. The initial connection is made but sometimes when a remote server tries to responsed back to you it only knows the users in their local domain. For them to reach you go to your tcpip interenet connection setting and append there dns suffix (which is there domain name “yahoo.com”) under your tcpip properties, advanced, dns settings and also check the boxss to register your connection with dns. I use to access yahoo a long time ago with outlook. I had to configure outlook by entering more than just my username in the username field. So try this: For User Name: yourusername/pop.mail.yahoo.com
and for the password: Yourpassword
Read between the lines and don’t literally enter “Yourpassword”
Good luck.
Here’s a login solution that’s solved am issue when loggin in to remote sites without lowering your internet explorer security settings. The fix was adding the website to IE ’s trusted sites and unchecking the https only box. It’s worth a try. I’ve received pop up messages in the past from Yahoo saying to enter thier domain name into my trusted sties zone. Couldn’t hurt.
Thank you. You are bright, and helpful, and can communicate clearly. May success continue to surround you.
YOU GUYS ROCK!!!! worked like a charm thanks alot I did have to go back to classic but who cares?
THANK YOU. I’ve spent 2 hours lookin on how to do this, nut all of them were only for 2003.
My renewal for yahoo plus expired so I decided to create another yahoo account and see if ypops would work before I paid the 20.00bucks. well I went to the ypops site and and got slammed with trojan viruses yesterday. Lucky I had just made an image of my pc a few days ago so I could reload my system. I did read on the ypops site that they are soon to come out with the next version and are just working on the the glitches due to yahoo making a lot of changes to their email programs. Ypops mentioned that their current version may have problems sending email. I couldn’t wait for the new release and sure don’t want another virus so I paid yahoo the damn 20 bucks.i
Dear,
Kindly provide me help how can i Configure my yahoo Account in Outlook 2003. with pop or imap access.
Syed Naeem Hussain Shah Kazmi
Email: snhsk@yahoo.com
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please help me solve this problem (sent test massage error..blah.. blah.. please check the email field.i already check n everything OK but still cannot sent the email.
Thanks FredS – that worked a treat, been hours trying to make outlook work.
Others please try – freds on November 1st, 2008 5:53 pm
I am trying to get Outlook 2000 to work. I subscribe to Mail Plus. My outgoing message ends up in the outbox as “not sent”. I get an error message 0×800cccof and “530 authentication required”. You are the last resort to solve this problem with my XP computer.
I downloaded Ypops and got it to work with outlook 2007 just fine. The only thing I just realized once the emails are downloaded to outlook I loose them on the yahoo server. Is there a way to prevent that from happening. Can I have them in both places for those times that I may not have my laptop and just want to check my emails from another computer? Please advise.
Also, how can I get my emails back on the yahoo server?
pls how did yours work ? also downloaded ypops but did not work with my outlook 2007…on testing, it displays failed .
Go to email account settings, More settings, advanced tab, and select save a copy to server.
how i can send to message using ypops in outlook 2007
thank u for the artice above it’s been helpful
THANK YOU!!! This solved my problem.
I can’t send email with outlook
the ypops already istalled in my computer
outloock download email and not sent email
please help me
After configuring necessary steps in Microsoft Outlook 2003,
All the test get complited successfully but when i m going to donload my mails through send/receive option, it gives the following error……
”
Task ‘localhost – Receiving’ reported error (0×800CCC90) : ‘Your incoming (POP3) e-mail server has reported an internal error. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP). The server responded: -ERR message 1 could not be downloaded’ ”
so what to do now????? Pleeease help me…..
Please unlock the mentioned website at my server as it seems locked
Hi… I configured Microsoft Outlook 2003 to receive mails from my yahoo account… But later I observe that the original mails are getting deleted from my yahoo id.. Is there any way that I can transfer my mails back to the yahoo server…
I tried doing it with Send/Receive function… but only the receiving part is working.. wat about the sending part…
I am trying to configure Outlook 2000 to run with Yahoo mail acct. I have downloaded Ypops and I can receive emails but when I try to send it comes up with the error msg 554 mailbox unavailable…….any advice/help would be great!
Cant get yahoo pop to take my login and password thru my External email client?????
My send test email was unsuccessful… it says…..
Send test e-mail message: None of the authentication method supported by this client are supported by you server.
PLSSSSS help….
It works in Microsoft Outlook 2007.
Thanks a lot
I am trying to using microsoft outlook and all the tasks get completed except for the sending of a test email to my server. Can anyone help me? I have no idea how to fix it?
it did not worked with mine…pls i need assisted
I see alot of questions about the “Your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server has reported an internal error. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP). The server responded: 554 Mailbox unavailable.” message. I haven’t seen the answer to the problem. I am using Outlook 2007, Yahoo Classic and have downloaded YPOPs. Any ideas out there? Thanks, Mike
When it click send and receive all the send is good but i get a error in receiving
Task ‘this_is_a_fake_email_@yahoo.com- Receiving’ reported error (0×800CCC90) : ‘Your incoming (POP3) e-mail server has reported an internal error. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP). The server responded: -ERR message 1 could not be downloaded’
*I changed the email
I also cannot send emails it says that outlook cannot connect to the outgoing server(SMTP)
I have Outlook 2007
i have just created e mail and 554 error makes me unable to send e mails
It worked fine for me, but i wrote (127.0.0.1) instead of local host + I had to download (ypops-win-0.9.7.3) instead of (ypops-win-0.9.7.1)
Thanks aloooot man
It only download 3 unread email then the msg say (Outlook couldnt log to the outgoing email server (SMTP)……Verify your port and SSL setting …)
Any solutions.
Btw, I am using outlook 2003 not 2007
I have tried outlook 2007/ outlook express / thunderbird with ypops. Works well from home network.
But when using proxies settings in office, it always go into recursive loop of asking “Enter Network Password”.. am I missing something when it comes to using proxy settings?????
Could someone please help me what version of ypops really work for downloade and sending all yahoo email? I have downloaded the latest. Another point is that is there any options that I have enable in windows xp system to work with. My gratitude to all of you who can help me.
i have outlook 07 and this Ypop 0.9.7.3 and its not working. I used 127.0.0.1 w/ port 110, I changed the port to 995 and still having issues. How do you set up Ypop for outlook 2007 please help
thanks
hi all,
I can’t enable my gmail account at microsoft outlook.Note that I am useing proxy server.
hi all,
I couldn’t receive mail from my outlook account to yahoo account
thanx mate !
this helps me alot….
n i did try only once n it works
am a computer technician
but none of us know that
we can use yahoo.com for
ms outlook 2007
thanx
lekaa