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, you’ve come to the right place. This article will show you the steps you need to follow to make Outlook and Yahoo Mail play nicely together. I think you will really enjoy the practical benefits of having access to all your mail messages through one program. You will enjoy 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.

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 use either:

• A Yahoo Mail Plus account ($19.99 per year)
• A Yahoo Business Email account ($9.95 per month)

If you don’t have one of these account types, you cannot connect Yahoo Mail and Outlook. But its easy to convert a free Yahoo Mail account (the kind you probably have if you don’t remember paying for the account) to a Mail Plus account is simple. 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 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 very similar. But before we talk about that, there’s one thing you should know. As part of the process for configuring Yahoo mail with Outlook you will tell the Yahoo mail servers not to keep copies of messages on the server once you view them with Outlook. This means they will not be visible from the Web once you read them with Outlook. Under normal circumstances, this is the way you want to set things up, 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.

Back to the configuration process…

…the exact steps you follow during the configuration process depend on which version of Outlook you are working with. To keep things simple, 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 rather than included in this article.

If you want to make Outlook 2007 work with your Yahoo Mail account, 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