Opening Yahoo! Mail Your Way

One advantage to using an email application is that you can work with your email offline. For example, you can draft messages when you aren’t connected to the Internet (such as when you’re on an airplane) and send the messages later when you can connect.

Using an email application with Yahoo! Mail Plus requires some setup within your Yahoo! Mail account and within the email application so that the application can access the Yahoo! mail server. During the application setup, you can usually specify whether the application should delete the downloaded messages from the server or leave a copy of them on the server. If you leave them on the server, you’ll be able to read them in Yahoo! Mail when using another computer.

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Here’s How

1. In the upper-right corner of the your Yahoo! Mail Plus page, click the Options link, then select Mail Options from the menu.

   

   The Mail Options page opens.

2. Under the Management column, click the POP Access and Forwarding link.

3. On the Pop Access & Forwarding page, make sure the radio button in front of the Web & POP Access option is selected, then click the POP Settings link.

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   The POP Access Settings page opens with information about your Yahoo! Mail Plus settings.

4. Note your account settings. You’ll need this information to configure your email application to work with the Yahoo! mail server.

   

5. Below the server settings, click the link for the application that you want to use.

   

   Tip: Click the Setting up another email client link if your application is not listed on this page.

6. Follow the online instructions for setting up your email application to work with Yahoo! Mail Plus.

   Note: If your email application allows you to receive mail from only one POP server at a time, make sure you write down your current settings before you replace them with Yahoo! Mail settings so that you can change them back if you need to.

Back:
Opening in a Web Browser

Take Me to Yahoo! Mail

Next:
Forwarding Mail to Another Account

What’s Next

Even if you normally use an email application to read your Yahoo! Mail, you can still visit the Yahoo! Mail Web site to view and manage your mail account and to read messages that you’ve left on the mail server. You get the best of both. You can use the application at home, and a browser while on vacation on some foreign shore. Just be sure that you don’t have the application delete the messages from the Yahoo! server.