Yahoo! Mail has been around for decades and is most commonly known for its webmail offering. For those who do not know there are other options. In this guide, we will share the Yahoo.com Email Settings for connecting mail clients using the IMAP, SMTP, and POP protocols.
Yahoo! Mail is a free and premium email service with over 225 million active monthly users offered by Yahoo, Inc. The service offers four different email plans: three for personal use (Basic, Plus, and Ad-Free) and another for businesses.
In addition to webmail, especially for business accounts, you can check your email and send messages using other email programs such as Ms. Outlook, Mailspring, Outlook Express, Apple Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.
Yahoo.com Email Settings
We have published the server settings for your convenience. These can be used by any mail software that supports IMAP, POP, and SMTP.
Yahoo.com IMAP Settings
With Yahoo.com IMAP, you can not only receive but enjoy two-way syncing of your Yahoo.com email account inbox and the related folders. IMAP is ideal if you need to access your emails from multiple devices such as Outlook, mobile phone, webmail, etc.
These are the IMAP settings for Yahoo! Mail:
- Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
- Port: 993
- Requires SSL: Yes
- Username: [Your full email address]
- Password: [Your Yahoo! Mail password]
Yahoo.com POP Settings
Yahoo.com POP is the protocol that allows you to retrieve incoming emails from your Yahoo.com email account. POP is an email protocol that is good if you want to retrieve incoming emails on a single device. It does not support two-way syncing like IMAP. For this reason, Brightwhiz recommends that you use IMAP whenever possible.
These are the POP settings for Yahoo! Mail:
- Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com
- Port: 995
- Requires SSL: Yes
- Username: [Your full email address]
- Password: [Your Yahoo! Mail password]
Yahoo.com SMTP Settings
Yahoo.com SMTP is the protocol that handles sending emails. You would need to configure you email client with this protocol to enable sending outgoing emails through the client.
These are the SMTP settings for Yahoo! Mail:
- Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- Port: 456 or 587
- Requires SSL: Yes
- Username: [Your full email address]
- Password: [Your Yahoo! Mail password]
Conclusion
You now have the current Yahoo.com email settings that you can use to retrieve incoming email via IMAP or POP and send outgoing email via SMTP by configuring any Desktop email client, or mobile device that supports the said protocols.
Find out more details about what Yahoo.com Email has to offer here.
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