How to Access Free Yahoo! Mail with Windows Live Mail

If you like Yahoo! Mail, though, you can make Windows Live Mail share your preference. You can even choose from two flavors of Yahoo! Mail in Windows Live Mail: the free and easy YPOPs!, which lets you download incoming mail for offline access, and the sophisticated IzyMail service, which offers you full IMAP access to all your Yahoo! Mail folders.

Access Free Yahoo! Mail with Windows Live Mail Using YPOPs! (Simple and Free)

To set up a free Yahoo! Mail account in Windows Live Mail using YPOPs:

1. Install YPOPs! and make sure it is running.
2. Select Tools | Accounts from the menu in Windows Live Mail.
3. Click Add.
4. Make sure E-mail Account is highlighted.
5. Click Next.
6. Type your Yahoo! Mail address under E-mail address.
7. Enter your Yahoo! Mail password under Password.
8. Type your name under Display Name.
9. Make sure, Manually configure server settings for e-mail account is checked.
10. Click Next.
11. Make sure POP3 is selected under My incoming mail server is a ___ server.
12. Enter "localhost" (no quotation marks) under Incoming serve.
13. If "localhost" turns out not to work, try "127.0.0.1" instead.
14. Check your Yahoo! Mail user name (your Yahoo! Mail address minus "@yahoo.com") is entered under Login ID.
15. Type "localhost" under Outgoing server.
16. Click Next.
17. Now click Finish.
18. Click Close.

Access Free Yahoo! Mail with Windows Live Mail Using IzyMail (IMAP Access to Folders)

To add Yahoo! Mail to your Windows Live Mail as an IMAP account using IzyMail:

1. Make sure your Yahoo! Mail account is registered with IzyMail.
2. Select Tools | Accounts from the menu in Windows Live Mail.
3. Click Add.
4. Make sure E-mail Account is highlighted.
5. Click Next.
6. Type your Yahoo! Mail address under E-mail address.
7. Enter your Yahoo! Mail password under Password.
8. Type your name under Display Name.
9. Make sure, Manually configure server settings for e-mail account is checked.
10. Click Next.
11. Make sure IMAP is selected under My incoming mail server is a ___ server.
12. Enter "in.izymail.com" (no quotation marks) under Incoming server. Type your full Yahoo! Mail email address (including "@yahoo.com") is entered under Login ID.
13. Type "out.izymail.com" under Outgoing server.
14. Make sure My outgoing server requires authentication is checked.
15. Click Next.
16. Now click Finish.
17. Highlight the newly added "Yahoo" account.
18. Click Properties.
19. Go to the IMAP tab.
20. Type "Sent" under Sent Items path.
21. Enter "Draft" under Drafts path.
22. Click OK.
23. Now click Close.