- Install YPOPs! and make sure it is running.
Select "Tools | Account Settings..." from the menu in Outlook
- Select Tools | Account Settings... from the menu in Outlook.
Go to the "E-mail" tab
- Go to the E-mail tab.
- Click New....
Make sure "Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP" is selected
- Make sure Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP is selected.
- Click Next >.
Type your name under "Your Name:"
- Type your name (what you want to appear in the From: line of messages you send) under Your Name:.
- Enter your full Yahoo! Mail address (e.g. "example@yahoo.com") under E-mail Address:.
- Make sure Manually configure server settings or additional server types is checked.
- Click Next >.
Make sure "Internet E-mail" is selected
- Make sure Internet E-mail is selected.
- Click Next >.
Make sure "POP3" is selected under "Account Type:"
- Make sure POP3 is selected under Account Type:.
- Type "127.0.0.1" under both Incoming mail server: and Outgoing mail server (SMTP):.
- Type your Yahoo! ID under User Name:.
- The Yahoo! ID is also the first part of your Yahoo! Mail address, i.e. everything before "@yahoo.com". If your Yahoo! Mail address is "example@yahoo.com", the ID is "example".
- Enter your Yahoo! Mail password under Password:.
- Click More Settings ....
- Go to the Outgoing Server tab.
- Make sure My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked.
- Leave Use same settings as my incoming mail server selected.
- Click OK.
- Now click Next >.
- Click Finish.