You can use your Yahoo email account in a desktop mail client or on your mobile device through an app to send and receive messages with your Yahoo email address and access your account on the web using a browser. Setting up Yahoo IMAP ensures that you can access mail in all of your Yahoo folders in both your email program and your browser. In addition to this, you will need to configure the SMTP settings to send mail through your account.
Yahoo Mail Settings: IMAP, SMTP, and POP
Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) handles receiving and displaying messages, and Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) handles sending outgoing messages. When you set up IMAP, you’ll also need to set up SMTP. Yahoo also supports Post Office Protocol (POP), which is the email standard responsible for managing the receipt of messages. POP fetches the message from the server, then removes it from the server so it’s only available on the device it was downloaded to. However, IMAP syncs messages to the server, so you’ll see the same message on all the devices you use to connect to your Yahoo Mail account.
Yahoo Mail IMAP settings and SMTP settings
To use your Yahoo account seamlessly in your email program, you need to configure your Yahoo email server settings. First, open your email program’s New Account Wizard, then enter the settings below:
Yahoo Inbox Server
Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
- IMAP port: 993
- IMAP TLS/SSL: yes
- IMAP username: Yahoo mail address
- IMAP password: Yahoo Mail password or app password
Yahoo Outgoing Mail Server
Yahoo SMTP server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- SMTP port: 465 or 587 alternatively
- SMTP TLS/SSL: yes
- SMTP Username: Your full Yahoo Mail address
- SMTP Password: Your Yahoo Mail password
These are the important Yahoo mail server settings that you should implement.
Yahoo Mail app passwords
Yahoo also supports app passwords, and these one-time passwords allow a specific program to access your Yahoo Mail account, without having to use your account password, if you’ve enabled two-factor authentication. Sometimes you may have trouble accessing your account if you’ve forgotten the two-factor authentication you’ve set up for your account. If you’ve enabled two-factor authentication, you’ll be prompted to sign in to your Yahoo account to create an app password for each computer or mobile device you’ll use.
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