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 you would, this article will show you how to get Outlook and Yahoo Mail working together. I think you will really like the convenience of being able to work with all your mail in one place. You’ll like being able to use Outlook’s familiar interface for everything, rather than the mish-mash of different tool you face when you deal with each 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. But its easy to convert a free Yahoo Mail account (the kind that most people start out with) to a Mail Plus account is simple. http://mailplus.mail.yahoo.com/ will open 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 almost the same. But before we talk about that, you need to be aware of something. During the configuration process you will be telling the Yahoo mail servers not to keep copies of messages on the server once you view them with Outlook. Once that happens, you won’t be able to read the downloaded messages anymore using the Yahoo Mail web interface. Under normal circumstances, this is the way you want things to work anyway, since having more than one copy of a message in existence at one time will surely cause you confusion and frustration, 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 detailed procedure you have to follow to complete the configuration depend on the particular version of Outlook you are working with. 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 listed on the Living With Outlook (http://www.Living-With-Outlook.com) website instead of right here.

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

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