Using Other Email Accounts With Yahoo! Mail

Tip: You can’t use Yahoo! Mail to receive messages from a Web-based email account that hasn’t been set up for POP access.

Here’s How

1. If you’re going to receive mail from another a Yahoo! Mail Plus account, ensure that the account is set up for POP access. For all other, non-Yahoo! email accounts, go directly to Step 2.

   • Sign into the other Yahoo! Mail Plus account.

   • In the upper-right corner of the Mail page, click the Options link, then select Mail Options from the menu.

   • Click the Pop Access and Forwarding link, and then click the Set Up or edit Pop & Forwarding link.

   • Make sure the Web & POP Access option is selected, then click the Save button.

     

   • Sign out of this Yahoo! Mail account.

2. Sign in to the Yahoo! Mail account into which you want to access the external account.

3. In the upper-right corner of the your Mail page, click the Options link, then select Mail Options from the menu.

   

   The Mail Options page opens.

4. Click the Accounts link on the left.

   

5. Click the Add or edit an account link on the Accounts options page.

   

   The Mail Accounts page opens displaying information about your Yahoo! Mail account(s).

6. Click the Add button to launch the Add Account wizard.

   

7. In Add Account Step 1, type a name for the new account (for example, Personal or School), then click the Continue button.

   

8. In Add Account Step 2, type the Name and Email address for your other account, then click the Continue button.

   

   Once the account is added to Yahoo! Mail, you’ll see the name and email address displayed as an option for the From box when you compose an email message. This allows you to send email from the other address while working in your Yahoo! Mail account. Your recipients will see the email coming from the other address, and their replies will be sent to that account.

9. In Add Account Step 3, if you want Yahoo! Mail to retrieve messages from the external account, provide the information that follows, then click the Setup Mail Server button. Otherwise, click the Skip This Step button.

   • Mail server—the remote server where your external account is stored, including that account’s email messages.

   • Username—the one you use to access your other account, typically the part of your email address before the @ symbol.

   • Password—the one you use to access your other account.

   • Indicator—the color Yahoo! Mail uses to mark messages that you receive from this account.

   

   Tip: If you skip this step and decide later to have Yahoo! Mail retrieve messages from this account, you can edit the account and add the necessary information.

   The Verify Account page opens.

10. On the Verify Account page, click the Send Verification button.

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    Tip: If the email address in #1 on the Verify Account page isn’t correct, click the Edit Address button, make your correction, then continue.

    Yahoo! Mail sends a verification message to the external account so you can confirm that you are the owner of the account.

11. Check your external account for the verification message from Yahoo! Mail, and follow the instructions in the message to complete the verification process.

    When the new account has been successfully added, it appears on the Mail Accounts page.

    

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What’s Next

If you want Yahoo! Mail to retrieve messages from this account and you need to provide the mail server port number (that is, if the server port is something other than 110), edit the account.

Yahoo! Mail can store settings for up to five different mail accounts.