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POP Yahoo! Mail Plus with Microsoft Outlook 2007

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Here’s how you can read your Yahoo! Mail Plus email using Outlook 2007:

1. From the Tools menu, select Account Settings.
   
   Note: If you do not see Account Settings, place your cursor over the two arrows at the bottom of the list to display more choices.
2. On the E-mail tab, click New. The Add New E-mail Account dialog box appears.
   
   
3. Select the Manually configure server settings or additional server types checkbox. Click Next. The Choose E-mail Service screen appears.
   
   
4. Select Internet E-mail, and click Next. The Internet E-Mail Settings screen appears.
   
   
5. Complete the fields as follows:
   • Your Name: Type your name as you’d like it to appear when you send an email message.
     
     E-Mail Address: Type your Yahoo! Mail Plus email address (for example, testing80@yahoo.com).
     
     Account Type: Select POP3 from the pull-down menu.
     
     Incoming mail server: Type plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com.
     
     Outgoing mail server (SMTP): Type smtp.mail.yahoo.com.
   • Select the Remember Password checkbox if you don't want Outlook to prompt you for your password each time you check your mail.
   • Do not select the Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) checkbox.
6. Click More Settings. The Internet E-mail Settings dialog box appears.
   
   
7. Select the Outgoing Server tab:
   • Select the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication checkbox.
   • Make sure that Use same settings as my incoming mail server is selected.
8. Click the Advanced tab:
   
   
   
   
   • For Incoming Server (POP3), select the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) checkbox. The number in the Incoming Server (POP3) field automatically changes from 110 to 995. If it doesn’t, type 995.
   • In the Outgoing Server (SMTP) field, type 465. Under Outgoing Server (SMTP), select the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) checkbox.
   • Next to Use the following type of encrypted connection, select SSL from the pull-down menu.
   • If want to keep a copy of your email messages on the Yahoo! Mail server, select the Leave a copy of messages on the server checkbox. If you want to delete your messages from the Yahoo! Mail server after viewing them in Outlook, leave the box unchecked.
   • If you want to save your Yahoo! Mail messages on both the Yahoo! Mail server and on your computer, select the Leave a copy of messages on the server checkbox. If you want your messages to be deleted from the Yahoo! server after Outlook has downloaded them onto your computer, leave the box unchecked.
     
     Note: After your messages are deleted from the server, we cannot retrieve them.
9. Click OK to close the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.
10. Click Next to continue. The Congratulations screen appears.
    
    
11. Click Finish to close the Add New E-mail Account dialog box.
12. Click Close to close the Account Settings dialog box.

You can now read your Yahoo! Mail Plus email using Outlook 2007.
Troubleshooting tips
If you still can’t send Yahoo! Mail from Outlook 2007, you might be accessing the Internet through an ISP that is blocking the SMTP port. If this is the case, try using port 587 when sending email via Yahoo!’s SMTP server. To make this change:

1. From the Tools menu, select Account Settings. The Account Settings dialog box appears.
2. Double-click your Yahoo! Mail Plus account. The Change E-mail Account dialog box appears.
3. Click More Settings. The Internet E-mail Settings dialog box appears.
4. Click the Advanced tab.
   
   
5. In the Outgoing Server (SMTP) box, type 587.
6. Click OK to close the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.
7. Click Next to continue. The Congratulations screen appears.
8. Click Finish to close the Change E-mail Account dialog box.
9. Click Close to close the Account Settings dialog box.