Note that if you have two-factor enabled on your Yahoo Mail account, you’ll need to generate an app password instead of using your normal Yahoo password. Under Logon Information, make sure you use your full email address and enter your password. Now copy and paste the following values for the appropriate fields: Incoming mail server - Outgoing mail server. Here we have to manually enter all of the server and login information for your Yahoo Mail account.įirst, enter your name and your full Yahoo email address. The next screen is the most important part of the process. Next you want to click on the POP or IMAP option and click Next. For Yahoo, you have to manually enter all the settings, which is a pain, so click on Manual setup or additional server types. On the next screen, don’t be tempted to click on Email Account because I already tried that and it doesn’t work. Now open Outlook, click on File and then click on the Add Account button. With Yahoo, it’s just enabled all the time, which probably isn’t a good thing in terms of security, but there’s not much we can do about that.

In Gmail, you have to specifically go in and enable POP or IMAP before it will work. Note that all Yahoo email accounts are eligible for IMAP or POP access without having to make any changes to your account. If you have a different email client, the options will be exactly the same, just in different locations. In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps for setting up Yahoo Mail with POP3 or IMAP using Outlook as the email client.

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