Yahoo is a very old and famous mailing service. It has gained millions of users over the years because of the features it provides for free to its users. In due course of time, other email service providers like CompuServe, AT&T, AOL, etc have collaborated with Yahoo and thereby increasing the scope of facility and features for their users. Ever since its beginning, Yahoo has put a lot of effort into providing hindrance-free service to its users.
However, people have to face some issues while accessing Yahoo using 3rd party clients like Outlook. There are a lot of Yahoo Mail Server Settings that have to be configured before using Yahoo email in Outlook or other email clients.
This article will take you through the information about mail servers, what they are, how they do, and their settings in Outlook.
Yahoo Mail Server Settings
Before starting with the yahoo mail pop settings, we must first find out what actually these servers are. Mail servers connect your email account with the email service provider’s servers. There are two types of mail servers, incoming and outgoing mail servers which are governed by three mailing protocols.
Mail protocols are the rules and regulations that monitor the whole emailing process in order to conduct it smoothly without any technical issue faced by the users. POP, IMAP, and SMTP are three mailing protocols that let you use your email without any problem. Yahoo Mail Server Settings includes the role of all three protocols.
POP and IMAP are more or less similar. The only difference is that POP does not sync your email account with the email servers, due to which, if you use your email on different devices and make some changes in your mail in the one, the email account on the other device will remain unaffected.
While IMAP does the two-way sync by which your email account gets connected to the email server and whenever you make any change in the email account of one device it will also show changes in that email on other devices. Thus, it is recommended to use IMAP over POP and do Yahoo IMAP Settings correctly.
SMTP governs the smooth conductance of emails, i.e., it governs the proper sending and receiving of emails from the sender side as well as the receiver side. Yahoo SMTP Server Setting is used in outgoing mail servers.
Now, without wasting further time, let’s jump to the settings.
For Account Type- IMAP
It Synchronizes your email with the email server and shows any changes to the email account, your email is linked to, each time you send or receive an email with any device. Using IMAP for incoming mail servers solves the problem that users cannot send and receive Yahoo messages from different devices. Following are the Yahoo IMAP Settings:
INCOMING MAIL SERVER- IMAP
- Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
- Port Number: 993
- SSL Required: Yes
OUTGOING MAIL SERVER- SMTP
- Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- Port Number: 465 or 587
- Encrypted Connection: SSL
- Authentication Required: Yes
USER INFORMATION
- Name: Your full name in the email account
- Username or Email Address: Your full Yahoo email address
- Password: Password for your Yahoo email account.
For Account Type- POP
As mentioned earlier, it does not allow you to use your email account on different devices. Therefore, it is recommended to use IMAP over POP. Although if you are using POP, these are the yahoo mail pop settings:
INCOMING MAIL SERVER- POP
- Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com
- Port Number: 995
- SSL Required: SSL
OUTGOING MAIL SERVER- SMTP
- Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- Port Number: 465 or 587
- SSL Required: Yes
- TLS Required: Yes
- Authentication Required: Yes
USER INFORMATION
- Name: Your full name in the email account
- Username or Email Address: Your full Yahoo email address
- Password: Password for your Yahoo email account.
Mail Server Settings of Yahoo in Outlook
Outlook is a third-party email client due to which to access Yahoo account in Outlook the above-mentioned settings have to change to avoid Emails Crunch and to use it smoothly.
- Open your Outlook desktop software.
- Go to the “Files” and click on “Add Account”.
- In order to use Yahoo in Outlook, for manual Yahoo Mail Server Settings click on the “Manual Setup and Additional server types” option.
- Fill in your Name, yahoo email address, and password.
- Click “Next”.
- Choose the option of “POP and IMAP”.
- Now, on the screen visible, enter your name, email address, choose account type IMAP, fill “imap.mail.yahoo.com” and “smtp.mail.yahoo.com” in incoming and outgoing server settings, respectively.
- Again, enter your email address and password.
- Click on “Require logon using secure password authentication” and then “More Settings”.
- Then in Outgoing settings, check the “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication”.
- Click “Advanced Settings”.
- Fill in the above-mentioned information in the respective fields and click “OK”
- Follow the instructions on the screen and finally click “Finish”.
Indeed Yahoo is a one of the famous and reliable emails services but isn’t perfect. You may face various issues while using Yahoo mail. Some Yahoo users reported that Yahoo mail app won t open. The error while opening Yahoo mail can appear due to the network issues. While accessing Yahoo mail, make sure you have a secure internet connection. You may face logging issues on the public network due to security reasons. Connect the system to a password secured connection and then try to open your Yahoo mail. If Yahoo is still not open then check deleting all the history files and cookies from your browser. Sometimes, the browser caches can also corrupt Yahoo. Remove all the junk from your browser and restart it. Now try to login your Yahoo account on the web browser. Another reason behind the Yahoo mail won’t opening error can be the VPN. If you have logged in Yahoo on one device and now you are trying to login to Yahoo another device with VPN then Yahoo may block the account temporarily. When your account is logged in from two different geographical location; Yahoo suspects it as malicious activity and blocks the account for security reasons. Disable the VPN on your device and now try to open your account.
