Accessing Other Email Accounts

Overview Adding Another Account Sending Mail Using Another Email Address Receiving Email From Another Account Editing an Account Deleting an Account

Overview

Do you have several email accounts? It’s OK, you can admit that you have one or more non-Verizon Yahoo! email accounts. You may even have several Verizon Yahoo! Mail accounts. We don’t mind. In fact, we can help you simplify your life by letting you send and retrieve messages from any of your external email accounts in one convenient location...your Verizon Yahoo! Mail account.

Finding multiple email accounts difficult to manage?Use Verizon Yahoo! Mail to access and manage your external email accounts?

One caveat, to retrieve messages from an external account, the account must allow POP3 access (such as Verizon Yahoo! Mail or Netscape Mail). Even if it doesn’t have POP access, you can still send messages.

Sending and retrieving email messages from an external account while working in your Verizon Yahoo! Mail account requires the following:

  • Adding the external account information to your Verizon Yahoo! Mail account.

    To allow Verizon Yahoo! Mail to send messages from the external account, you need to provide the account’s email address. Optionally, if you want Verizon Yahoo! Mail to be able to retrieve messages from this account, you need to provide information about the account’s mail server and how to sign in to the account.

  • Verifying ownership of the other account.

    This important step—part of setting up the account—protects the privacy of your external account by making it difficult for anyone else to gain unauthorized access to it.

  • Editing the account information.

    This optional task gives you the opportunity to add a few more options, such as having all mail from the external account delivered to a specific folder in your Verizon Yahoo! Mail account and retrieving new messages only.

  • Sending email messages using the other account’s address.

    Once you set up the account in Verizon Yahoo! Mail, you’ll be able to send messages from that account’s email address by choosing it in the From box on the compose page. When your recipients receive the email, they’ll see the address you selected and their replies will be sent to that email address.

  • Retrieving the account’s email into your Verizon Yahoo! Mail account.

    If you set up Verizon Yahoo! Mail to retrieve messages from another account, you can simply click a button to pull email into your Verizon Yahoo! mailbox. You can decide if copies of the messages remain in the external account or are automatically deleted when you "pop" them into Verizon Yahoo! Mail.

 

What’s Next

When you add an account to Verizon Yahoo! Mail, you are setting Verizon Yahoo! Mail up to send messages from that account. You have the option of allowing Verizon Yahoo! Mail to also retrieve messages from that account.

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Words to Know

  • External email account: an email account that used a mail server other than the Verizon Yahoo! Mail server.
  • Mail server: an application that receives incoming email and forwards outgoing email for delivery. A computer dedicated to running such applications is also called a mail server.
  • POP3: Post Office Protocol 3, a standard client/server protocol for receiving email in which a mail server receives and holds email messages for you.