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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. Once you get this set up, You’re really going to enjoy the pleasure of having access to all your mail messages through one program. You’ll like being able to use Outlook’s familiar interface for all your work, rather than the mish-mash of different tool you face when you deal with each account.

You can only use your Yahoo Mail with Outlook if you have a premium Yahoo Mail account. That means, you must 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. However, converting a free Yahoo Mail account (the kind that most people start out with) to a Mail Plus account is easy. http://mailplus.mail.yahoo.com/ will open a new window where you can upgrade your free account to a Mail Plus account. Be sure to return to this article once you have upgraded your account so we can configure Outlook to work with it. 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 process of configuring both types of Yahoo Mail to work with Outlook is almost the same. Before we go further with the configuration, there’s one thing you should know. As part of the process for configuring Yahoo mail with Outlook 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.

Back to the configuration process…

…the exact steps you follow to complete the configuration depend on which version of Outlook you have. 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 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

If you want to make a version of Outlook that’s not Outlook 2007 work with your Yahoo Mail account, go to http://www.living-with-outlook.com/yahoo-mail.html#ConfigureOutlookAnchor