How to setup a Yahoo! Mail email account in Windows Live Mail

The ability to access Yahoo! Mail via Windows Live Mail is only available to customers of our Yahoo! Mail Plus service.

Here is what you'll need to setup your Yahoo! Mail Plus account in Windows Live Mail.

	How To Setup A Yahoo! Mail Email Account In
	Windows Live Mail
1	The first time you open Windows Live Mail, the Add an E-mail Account dialog automatically opens, or you can find the Add an e-mail account button in Windows Live Mail's left-side pane :
2	Type your full Yahoo! Mail Plus email address in the following format yourname@yahoo.com.
3	Type your Yahoo! Mail Plus password. (It's safe to give your password to Windows Live Mail.) Windows Live Mail will automatically remember your Yahoo! Mail password, but you can uncheck the Remember password check box if you want.
4	Display Name determines how emails you send from will look to your recipients. The display name doesn't have to match your Yahoo! Mail Plus user name.
5	Make sure to check the Manually configure server settings for e-mail account check box.
6	Click Next
	The next screen is for Windows Live Mail's connection settings. It requests the validation information you need to enable a connection between Windows Live Mail and your Yahoo! Mail account. The top section of this screen starts with Incoming Server Information. It asks how Windows Live Mail will retrieve your emails from the 's servers.
7	Choose POP3 as server type.
8	Enter the incoming mail server value as plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com.
9	Enter the port number as 995.
10	Check the This server requires a secure connection (SSL) check box.
11	Leave the default setting for logging in as Clear text authentication.
12	Under Login ID, enter your Yahoo! Mail user name (the part of your email address that comes before "@yahoo.com").
	The bottom section of Windows Live Mail's email account setup screen contains the Outgoing Server Information. This is the connection settings used by Windows Live Mail to send emails to the Yahoo! Mail Plus service.
13	Set the outgoing server address to plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com.
14	Enter the port number as 465.
15	Make sure to check the check boxes that say: This server requires a secure connection (SSL), and My outgoing server requires authentication.
16	Click Next
	This finishes the set-up. If Windows Live Mail successfully connects to Yahoo! Mail's servers, it will give you the following message

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If you don't receive this confirmation, it may mean that your Yahoo! Mail Plus password was incorrect, your Yahoo! Mail Plus email address was incorrect, or that you failed to get a good internet connection.

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