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How Do I Sync My Yahoo Email With Outlook?

Sync Yahoo mail with Outlook

By Online GeeksPublished 5 years ago 3 min read

From the time this pandemic situation has existed, we are struggling to make a good communication way so that we can coordinate more efficiently and effectively with our co-workers to keep the work going on. However, one thing that is holding on to fill this communication gap is email. Email clients have provided us with a more formal and sophisticated way of sharing information and documentation which we can track.

One such email client, which has served people for over 20 years is Yahoo. When we sync Yahoo mail with outlook it becomes all the more useful, as every time we want to access our email account, we need not open the browser and then log in through the login page, we just need to have Outlook desktop application and email access will just be a click away. This would also save us a lot of time.

With the means of this article, we will take you through Yahoo mail settings for outlook along with the way to sync your email account with Outlook.

Add Yahoo Email Account to Outlook

Before moving to the sync part, it is important to know the process to add your account in Outlook. This section of the article will give you the required knowledge for doing Yahoo mail settings for outlook.

Through this process, you will also get to know the Yahoo mail server settings. This is a very easy process that can give you insights into all the required and necessary information:

  1. Open the Outlook Desktop software and click the “File” option.
  2. Under the “Info” menu option you will see an “Add Account” button, click on it.
  3. Enter your Yahoo email address and click the button “Connect” which will be present at the bottom of the window.
  4. Fill in the password of your Yahoo email account and again tap on “Connect”.
  5. On the next window, you will have to click “Done” and your account will be added to Outlook.

If you are having a problem connecting to Outlook. Then you have to click on “Advanced Options” while entering your email address and check the option of “Let me set up the account manually”. In the prompted window select the IMAP option and enter your Outlook app password. Moving forward you have to fill in the following information by selecting the “Change account settings” option:

  • Incoming mail server: imap.mail.Yahoo.com
  • Port Number: 993
  • Encrypted Connection: SSL
  • Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.mail.Yahoo.com
  • Port Number: 465
  • Encrypted Connection: SSL

Sync Yahoo with Outlook

Syncing or synchronization is the process of joining two things together so that they work in a similar fashion. Similarly, when we sync Yahoo mail with outlook it means that all the changes we are doing i.e., sending, receiving, deleting emails, etc. using Yahoo email account from its website, will also reflect in the Outlook application. It is a very basic concept, but at the same time, it is also very important because if it doesn’t work you will not be able to get your email account on different devices.

So, without going deep into the concept, let’s look at the steps to do so:

  • Go to the Yahoo email login page.
  • Fill in your login information i.e., email address and password, and click the login button.
  • Find the option labelled as “Mail Options”.
  • Find the option to change the account type or server settings.
  • If your account type is set to POP, change it to IMAP.
  • Save the changes you made.
  • Thereafter, open the desktop application of Outlook.
  • Click on the “File” tag.
  • Tap on the “Add Account” option.
  • Enter your email address and password and follow the prompted instructions on the screen.
  • After going through instruction, the last screen will appear with a button named “Done”, click on it and you are done with Yahoo mail settings for outlook and syncing.
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