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Using Other Email Accounts With Yahoo! Mail

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Retrieving Email From Another Account

With just a click, Yahoo! Mail checks your external email account for messages and pulls them into your Yahoo! mailbox. Once the messages are in your mailbox, you can organize them into different folders and treat them as you do any Yahoo! message.

Notes:

Yahoo! Mail fetches messages from your external mail accounts only when you request it. It doesn’t automatically retrieve external mail when you check your Yahoo! Mail account for new messages.

If you created filters, Yahoo! Mail uses them to sort the mail you receive from the external account. Learn more

 

Here’s How

  1. If you haven’t already done so, add the account information needed so that Yahoo! Mail can retrieve messages from the external account (mail server, user name, and password). You can do this while adding the account or editing the account.

  2. On the left side of the Yahoo! Mail page under Check Other Mail, click the name of a mail server to retrieve messages from that server.

    Click the name of an external mail server to retrieve messages from that server.

    Tip: Clicking the Check Mail button on the main page does not retrieve messages from your external mail accounts.

    Yahoo! Mail retrieves messages from the selected server into the Inbox (or other mail folder) of your Yahoo! Mail account and marks the messages with the indicator color you selected.

    Retrieved messages appear in the appropriate mail folder with a small color block to the left of the message.Enlarge

 

What’s Next

You can also retrieve external mail from the Mail Accounts page. Select an account from the list, then click the Check Mail link to the right of the server name.

You can retrieve messages by clicking the Check Mail link on the Mail Accounts page.

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Words to Know

  • External email account: an email account that uses a mail server other than the Yahoo! Mail server.
  • Filter: a set of rules that Yahoo! Mail uses to direct an incoming message to a particular folder.
  • Folder: a container that holds individual elements specific to the context; for example, email messages in Yahoo! Mail.
  • 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.

Popups

To have Yahoo! Mail deliver mail to a specific folder, create the folder, then create the filter to direct mail delivery.