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A Yahoo Outlook 2010 Connection – Mistakes People Make When They Try To Configure Outlook 2010 For Yahoo Mail Access
If you’re like me, you have been anxious to set up a Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection. And it is easy to configure a Yahoo Mail in Outlook 2010 connection, if you know how to deal with a few details.
But from the electronic mail I’ve received, and the cries for help I’ve seen online, lots of folkshave run into one or more of those issues. Here are a few of the mistakes that folks tend to make when trying to make Outlook 2010 and Yahoo Mail work together:
1. Using the Wrong Version of Yahoo Mail
Yahoo won’t let you connect to your free Yahoo email account with Outlook (or any other mail program). I’ve seen various theories why they do this, but all that really matters is they do.
To be able to make a Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection, you are required to upgrade your existing Yahoo Mail account into a Mail Plus account or a Business Mail account. Unless you can name a specific reason you need a Business Mail account, I strongly recommend Yahoo Mail Plus.
This upgrade is pretty painless. You don’t have to change your email address or do anything differently. You get some additional capabilities from the upgrade, foremost of which is the ability to connect with Outlook. But it does cost you a little bit of money ($19.95/year, or $1.66/month) in exchange for the big convenience of getting your Yahoo mail in Outlook.
2. Using an Incompatible Protocol
We need to descend into nerd talk here for a minute. People with some experience in this kind of work try to set up a Yahoo IMAP connection, because the IMAP protocol is powerful and flexible.
But Yahoo only supports POP3 connections, no IMAP at all. The POP3 protocol isn’t as powerful or flexible as IMAP, but for sending and receiving Yahoo messages using Outlook 2010, it works well.
3. Guessing at Some of the Settings
While anyone can set up this connection once they know how, the correct settings to use aren’t intuitively obvious to most people. As a result, they get one or more of the fiddly little setting wrong, and the whole project falls down.
This is why I urge you to use instructions crafted by someone that has already set this up many times. Doing so can save you lots of anxiety. You certainly have better things to do with your time then spend an afternoon trying to get this figured out by yourself.
Now you’ve seen the three major issues I’ve seen when people try to make a Yahoo Outlook 2010 connection. Getting it right is doable and pretty simple, when you have the right help.