Yahoo Philippines using Microsoft Outlook

Epic Headache of the Year.

I've always prided myself as a quick techie learner. Even after losing half my brain to pregnancy anaesthesia (yes, it's true!) I was pretty good in learning HTML stuff and computer stuff.

But my epic struggle of the years is getting my Yahoo email to coordinate with Microsoft Outlook. OH MY GOSH! I tried it again this time because J and got Blackberrys and would love to coordinate emails with staff via Outlook instead via a Browser.

What a headache. I swear. I tried using alllll kinds of setups BEFORE I figured out one IMPORTANT THING.

Guess what? Yahoo Philippines Email can't be used with Microsoft Outlook. Jeez. I had to change my region to Yahoo Asia instead of Yahoo Philippines, then downloaded a program called Ypops! just to be sure. Follow the steps below. Admittedly though my Yahoo email seems screwed now. Due to the change of location/region, some of my emails (during the time difference) disappeared! And now I keep getting Error 5 and can't access my inbox (though I think this is because there are 5 of us checking one mailbox simulatenously).

Hope this helps. Otherwise, I'd just do it the old fashioned way - via a browser. *sigh*

Steps to Outlook Sanity:

From the Tools menu, choose "Accounts."

Select the "Mail" tab.

Click the "Add" button.

From the Add menu, click "Mail."

In the text box labelled Display Name, type your name and click "Next."

In the Email Address box, type your Yahoo! Mail address (be sure to include "@yahoo.com") and click "Next."

Under "My incoming mail server is a…" select "POP3."

Type "pop.mail.yahoo.com" in the Incoming Mail (POP3, IMAP, or HTTP) Server box.

Type "smtp.mail.yahoo.com" in the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server box.

Click "Next."

In the Account Name box, type your Yahoo! Mail ID (your email address without the "@yahoo.com").

In the Password box, type your Yahoo! Mail password.

If you want Outlook Express to remember your password, check the "Remember password" box.

Do not check the boxes labelled "Log on using Secure…"

Click "Next."

Click "Finish."

Select 'pop.mail.yahoo.com.' under 'Account,' and click 'Properties.'

Click the “Servers” tab.

Under “Outgoing Mail Server” check the box next to “My server requires authentication”

Click the 'Advanced' tab.

Under “Outgoing mail Server (SMTP)”, check the box next to “This server requires a secure connection (SSL). Enter port number “465” in the “Outgoing mail (SMTP)” field.

Under “Incoming mail (POP3)”, check the box next to “This server requires a secure connection (SSL)". The port number in the “Incoming mail (POP3)" field should automatically change from 110 to 995. If it doesn’t, make sure the port number is set to 995.

If you find a cooler way to do all of that, and it works, do let me know!!