How to Use a Free Yahoo Mail Account with Outlook with IMAP

Most of us have a common belief that free Yahoo account cannot be configured in MS Outlook. Yesterday I tried to set it up on my laptop. To my surprise, I was able to do so! I then tried in Mozilla Thunderbird and it was the easiest one. It configured itself. All I had to do was to choose ’IMAP’ in both Outlook and Thunder Bird.

 

Here's how you set up a free Yahoo Mail account to work with Outlook via IMAP:

 Go to File -> Account Settings -> E-mail -> New.
 Choose E-mail Account.
 Select Manually configure server settings or additional server types.

  Click Next.

  Choose Internet E-mail.
 Click Next.

 Fill out the form as you see below. Make sure to replace Your Name with the display name you want and replace youremail@yahoo.com with your full e-mail address. Having the yahoo.com part is important.

  You can leave out @yahoo.com (if your email is ending with @yahoo.com) (Not for others like, @ymail.com, @yahoo.co.in, @rocketmail.com, etc)

Click More Settings … and fill out the Advanced and Outgoing Server tabs as you see in the two screenshots below.

Click Ok, Next, Finish, etc… to complete the setup.

I've been having trouble syncing folders that were added to the Yahoo Mail account. Only the default folders such as Inbox seem to actually work.

Yahoo opened up IMAP so you can setup your Yahoo Mail account on a mobile device. The same settings can be used in Outlook to sync mail. So configure Yahoo Mail on your computer and mobile devices. Keep mailing …J