MS Outlook is one of the most widely used desktop email clients. The platform is updated and taken care by Microsoft. The mailing tool allows users to operate emails even when they are offline. It helps to maintain calendars, tasks, notes and messages. It is much more than an email client. These are some beneficial factors encouraging web mail users to switch to MS Outlook. Below are the following instructions that help you to configure Outlook with Yahoo Mail.

Open Outlook 2013 and go to the File menu.

Then the Account Information box will appear, press ‘Add Account’ tab

A new window will open of Add Account, straight go to ‘Manual Select or Additional Server Types’ and press Next tab

Choose the service ‘Select POP’and press the Next tab

On POP account fill the required field.

• Name you would like to display
• Email address of Yahoo
• Account types are POP3
• Incoming mail server
• Outgoing mail server
• Username of Yahoo ID
• Password of your Yahoo
• Don’t tick the required login using Secure Password Authentication

Press the ‘More Settings’ tab

A box of Internet email settings will open. Choose ‘Outgoing Server’ in the box.

Select the ‘My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication

8. On the same window go to the Advanced Option and fill the info carefully:

• Incoming server (POP): 995
• Outgoing server(SMTP): 465, 587 or 25
• Incoming server encrypted connection: SSL
• Set encryption type to SSL or TLS
• Set the desired time

Finally hit the Ok tab

You can press close window and press Next tab

Finally, press the Finish tab to accomplish the task.

Now restart your Outlook and choose to send/receive all the folders from the top

This is how you can start getting your Yahoo messages on MS Outlook. You don’t need to open Yahoo separately.