Configure Windows Mail to connect to Yahoo Mail Plus
Wed, 11/14/2007 - 08:17 — Ciprian
We have received a lot of e-mails from people asking how to configure Windows Mail to connect to their e-mail accounts from Yahoo Mail. In this tutorial we will guide you step-by-step on how to connect to the popular Yahoo Mail Plus service. Before we continue, please note that the free Yahoo Mail service does not support POP3, and you will have to subscribe to a Yahoo Mail Plus account in order to use this feature.
Start Windows Mail and then go to Tools -> Accounts.
Click on Add to add the e-mail account.
Select E-mail Account and press on Next.
Type your name and click on Next.
Type your e-mail address and click on Next.
Choose POP3 in the incoming e-mail server drop-down list. Type „pop.mail.yahoo.com” in the incoming mail field and then „smtp.mail.yahoo.com” in the outgoing mail field. Also, don’t forget to check the „Outgoing server requires authentication” option. Then click on Next.
Type your username without „@yahoo.com” and your password. Check the „Remember password” option and click on Next.
Check the „Do not download my e-mail” option and click on Finish.
Now, select your e-mail account again and click on Properties.
Go to the „General” tab and type „Yahoo Mail Plus” in your account name field.
Go to the „Advanced” tab and check the „SSL” options for SMTP and POP3. Also type the ports 465 and 995.
Another recommended setting would be to check the „Leave a copy of messages on server” and the „Remove from server when deleted from Deleted Items”. Then click on OK.
Now it should work. Press on the Send/Receive button and you should start receiving your e-mail messages.
This completes our Configure Windows Mail to connect to Yahoo Mail Plus! tutorial. Stay tuned as we will work on more of them with different mail providers such as Hotmail or Gmail.
NOTE: this guide works ONLY for Yahoo Mail Plus clients. The free service of Yahoo Mail does not offer POP3 access, therefore you will always receive error messages when you will try to connect via Windows Mail or any other e-mail client. If you are a Yahoo Mail Plus client and you still have problems connecting, than please use the Yahoo Help page. Unfortunately we cannot offer any technical support for Yahoo accounts.
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Comments
ERROR CONFIGURING WIN MAIL
it keeps requesting for a user name and password after configuring and it never authenticates the username.
View the error:
Account: 'Yahoo Mail Plus', Server: 'pop.mail.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR [AUTH] invalid user/password', Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92
Pls Help
Windows mail and Yahoo
I am able to successfully send and receive e-mails on windows mail. Thanks! But I can not open any address eswithin the e-mails that I receive. Can you help with this?
Error
I am having the same problem as everyone else as far as going by your instructions exactly and the error message popping up about Account: 'Yahoo Mail Plus', Server: 'pop.mail.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR [AUTH] invalid user/password', Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92
Any suggestions?
configuring yahoo mail
I configured yahoo mail to windows mail in may this year. I went to retrieve an e mail on Wednesday 30 July 2008 and found I could no longer receive mail in windows mail from this account. I followed the advice of the on line assistance and purchased yahoo plus.I followed the tutorial in vista for beginners but still I cannot receive from this account.I have now created a forwarding address for all the mail that is received at the yahoo account windows mail that I know can be received by windows mail.Is yahoo plus a recent option from yahoo ?
Help
I keep getting these errors after I push "send/receive" I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong... I have removed and tried again with same results.
Account: 'Yahoo Mail Plus', Server: 'pop.mail.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR [AUTH] invalid user/password', Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92
Account: 'Yahoo Mail Plus', Server: 'pop.mail.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR [AUTH] invalid user/password', Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92
Account: 'Yahoo Mail Plus', Server: 'pop.mail.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR [AUTH] invalid user/password', Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92
configuring yahoomail in windows mail
First configre pop3 options in your yahoo mail(log in to ur account , click on OPtions( on the right side of ur mail page)
Vista and e-mail attachments
Although we had no problem setting up the computer to recognize our e-mail account, we cannot open attachments in Word, Excel or PDF. Pictures come across just fine. We can use Microsoft Office to produce and send attachments; they just won't open on our computer with Vista. The error message is "Webpage cannot be displayed." It thinks that every Word, Excel, and PDF document is a webpage if attached to e-mail. Any thoughts? After 5 hours on the phone with our internet service and HP, we seem to be running in circles.
Helpful Info
I found your information to be very thorough and helpful. Thank you for taking the time to help us 'common users' utilize a great Microsoft product.
PTE
1. You're wrong about free. 2. You missed an important step!!!
Okay, I came here hoping to get help with a recalcitrant account but it looks like I'll have to give it instead.
Your tutorial is good except for two points:
Firstly, it perpetuates the myth that NO free Yahoo accounts can use POP unless they upgrade to MailPlus - I have two free accounts set up on three different computers - XP Pro, 2000 Pro and Win 98SE and yes, we are in 2008 and Yahoo *will* work with 98SE still - what matters is that Outlook Express 6 is supported, not what my version of Windows is. I also have another account that is free and isn't eligible for POP access. I do not have MailPlus with any of them - they are totally, 100% free accounts. Some free accounts can use POP (meaning Outlook Express, etc.) and it's very easy to work out if yours can. (Admittedly, there is someone on Yahoo Answers who always tells people to upgrade to MailPlus and not much information about it on Yahoo so I understand you would think free accounts are never eligible.)
Secondly, POP access MUST be enabled in your online mail options before you can get your emails. Lots of people here are getting a password error and that is likely the reason for most, if not all of the password errors mentioned here.
These points are outlined here:
http://freewebs.com/yahooqs/yahooeml.html
Your screenshots doubtlessly make this an easier tutorial to follow for many people than Yahoo's own. Nice work.
sent mail and contacts
I configured my yahoo mail to my MS Outlook email client, but my contacts and sent mail contents did not move over with my the contents of my inbox.