Start managing your Yahoo Mail using the Microsoft Outlook 2019, 2016, or 365 email client by adding your account. Just use these steps to set it up via IMAP.
Enable POP or IMAP on Yahoo!
Yahoo must first be setup to communicate with Outlook using these steps:
- Login to your Yahoo Mail account via a web browser.
- Go to the Account Security Settings page.
- Turn the “Allow apps that use less secure sign in” setting to “On“
Important Steps if 2-Step Authentication is Enabled
If 2-Step Authentication is enabled on your Yahoo account, you will need to create a third-party password just for Outlook using these steps:
- Visit the Yahoo Account Security page.
- Select “Account Security” on the left side of the page.
- Scroll to the bottom and select “Manage app passwords“.
- Choose “Outlook Desktop” in the “Select your app” field, then select “Generate“.
- Copy the password that is shown to a safe place. Select “Done“.
Outlook 2019
- From Outlook, go to “File” > “Info” > “Add account“.
- Type your Yahoo email address, then select “Connect“.
- Enter your Yahoo account password, then select “Connect“.
- Select “Done” and you’re set to use Yahoo Mail with Outlook.
Outlook 2016
- From Outlook, go to “File” > “Info” > “Add account“.
- Select “Manual setup or additional server types“, then select “Next“.
- Select “POP or IMAP” (IMAP is recommended), then select “Next“.
- Fill in the following information:
- Your Name: First and last name.
- Email Address: username@yahoo.com
- Account Type: IMAP or POP (Whatever you chose in step 7)
- Incoming mail server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
- Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- User Name: username@yahoo.com
- Password: Your Yahoo password. If you have enabled “Two-step verification”, you will have to create an app password.
- Check the “Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)” box.
- Select the “More Settings…” button.
- Select the “Outgoing Server” tab, then check the “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” box.
- Select the “Advanced” tab, then fill in the following:
- Incoming server (IMAP): 993
- Use the following type of encrypted connection: SSL
- Outgoing server (SMTP): 465
- Use the following type of encrypted connection: SSL
- Select “OK“
- Select “Next“. Be patient while communication is established.
- If the tasks show as “Completed” you should be able to select “Close” and be ready to use Yahoo email with Outlook 2016. If an error occurs, double-check your settings.
Z says
This is awesome. Thank you very much.
Jo says
Thank you very much Bill November 23, 2020 at 1:08 pm.
Greg Boyce says
Worked a treat in Outlook 2019. It was an initial/first start of outlook. No other accounts, used the Yahoo generated password – went straight through. Remember to close the first page and there it is Outlook downloading the Yahoo mail. Great job thank you. Greg
Bill says
Hi, after much trial and error, this is what worked for me 8^):
In Yahoo Mail,
1) click on your icon in the upper right hand corner of your Y! Mail page
2) Click on “Account Security”
3) Scoll down and click on “Manage app passwords”
4) Select “Outlook Desktop” in the drop down
5) click “Generate”
6) copy the password that was generated
In Outlook 2013 (hopefully this works in other versions too!),
1) Click on the File tab
2) click on your account in Account Settings -> Email Accounts
3) click Change
4) paste the Y! generated password in the “Logon Information” section
5) click Next and it worked for me!
Note, here are my Y! Server settings, hope it works for you:
Server Information
-Account type = IMAP
-Incoming mail server = imap.mail.yahoo.com
-Outgoing mail server (SMTP) = smtp.mail.yahoo.com
-“Remember password” & “Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) are checked
-“More Settings”
—–“Outgoing Server” tab:: “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” is checked as is “Use Same settings as my incoming mail server”;
—–“Advanced”:tab: IMAP port = 993, SSL, SMTP port = 465, SSL
MAB says
Few…this worked for me and a thank you to: SLJ says January 4, 2020 at 4:34 pm
For those of us that did not have the “allow app with less security button” it was the “Generate an App Password” in the Security section of Yahoo.
I now have Yahoo on Outlook – thanks again!
Ann says
I followed all these instructions, same thing I been trying for over a month. Worked fine in 2016 but not in 2019. If I just use normal password it fails, if I use the app password it tells me there is not enough space to create the data file.
Sarah says
Thank you so much for the app password advice – I have spent the last hour and a half trying to connect my Yahoo account – i was about to give up when I came across this thread! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH
Sheila Marie Victoria Coughlin says
Thank you so much. It worked for me to generate a password for an “other app” which I also named Outlook 2019. Then I used that password to set up my yahoo account in Outlook when Outlook asked me for a password instead of using my Yahoo sign in password. It added right away. This information was very helpful I wasn’t about to be able to troubleshoot that on my own! Many thanks.
Ira Horowitz says
It stopped working on March 26th, and no matter what I do I can’t get it work for yahoo mail. I have tried both Imap and pop3 with no success, however my wife’s still works correctly. Any ideas?
Rob says
FInally, found the correct info and it’s working!!! Thank you 5 stars!!!
Evans says
The generate app password worked for me but I chose ‘other app’ and named it outlook 2019..
Thanks – it’s been bugging me for a while!
Louie says
The app password worked for me. I was running out of ideas.
Kirk R says
OK I got it to work. go to your yahoo mail online then click on your name and go to account settings. Then generate an app password. I selected desktop outlook and it generated an android password but it worked. I went into outlook and added an account i typed in my yahoo email and the password generated not my real yahoo password.
Josh says
I tried all the combinations of the ways mentioned by the users posted in here. None worked on my desktop outlook 365. Very frustrating…
Tammy says
mine will not work and i am ready to delete this account and go with Gmail
W says
Hello – Just tried this:
1. Login to your Yahoo Mail account via a web browser.
2. Go to the Account Security Settings page.
3. Turn the “Allow apps that use less secure sign in” setting to “On“
The “allow apps….” was on, I turned it off and tried to turn it back on and the setting option disappeared. It stated something along the lines of “this won’t be an option as of March 20, 2020”. Looks as though yahoo is changing their ways….
Anyway, I am still not able to get yahoo through outlook on my desktop. I’m stuck at “4 of 8 tasks have completed successfully”.
Thanks Mitch Bartlett for any further help you can provide.
Brett S says
I’ve tried everything to get Yahoo mail to connect to Outlook 2019! No success at all…I’m frustrated!!
SLJ says
Oh my stars!! THANK YOU!
After 7 sites and 4 YouTubes, you had the answer!
For those of us that did not have the “allow app with less security button” it was the “Generate an App Password” in the Security section of Yahoo.
I now have Yahoo on Outlook – thanks again!
Nicole Barron says
I followed the updated instructions (several times) for Outlook 2016 & Yahoo. It will not work. The instructions with the revisions from Aug 2019 is anyone else getting this to work??
Dylan Dailey says
Well done, this worked great.
Tom Nepereny says
Everything I see is to access Yahoo mail through Outlook. I like the Yahoo mail app for IOS and want to use it to access my exchange mail from work. Can the Yahoo IOS mail app be used to read/send Exchange mail?
AJ says
You can no longer just add third party access from yahoo as they don’t have that option anymore. However, you can generate a one-time use key to use that will allow you to add the imap mail the rest of the directions from step 7. I believe you have to check secure pass for outgoing server.
Thanks for the post it helped me navigate this!
JO says
Does anyone know how to add the calendar onto your iPhone afterwards? After successfully connecting my Yahoo Mail to Outlook, I’ve been adding appointment slots to the Outlook Calendar, but it doesn’t show up on my iPhone (Outlook app, even when I add my yahoo email as a calendar, or when I add an ‘outlook’ calendar + enter my yahoo email).
delintfan says
From Outlook, go to “File” > “Info” > “Add account“.
Doesn’t exist!! Help. It works on my iPad but not my iMac
It says View all Settings–>Mail–>Sync Email
Display name–>User Name–> password–>Incoming Imap–>imap.mail.yahoo.com
incoming serving port–> 993 –>authentication–>basic —> encryption–> ssl –> outgoing smtp serving
—>smtp.mail.yahoo.com—> outgoing serving port—> 587
Afifi Nasir says
OMFG OMFG I had this frustration for over 2 days and finally solved for Outlook 2013. I use the Outlook 2016 setup above with slight MAJOR change as follows:
1. At item #4 > Password > click the link ‘https://login.yahoo.com/account/security/app-passwords/list”
2. You will be directed to yahoo account settings page. login with your yahoo mail and EXISTING email password. After this will be tricky.
3. A pop-up ‘App password’ will appear. In this pop-up, select > Outlook desktop.
4. A NEW password will appear. Copy this password. *REMEMBER*, this will be your forever email password when you login using Outlook desktop. Your EXISTING email password can’t be used, although you can still use it when accessing from yahoo web email.
5. Go back to your Outlook desktop, fill in the details using imap settings and add in your email and this NEW email password. Also, tick both ‘Remember my password’ and ‘Require logon using SPA’. You are all set!
6. If you click ‘Test Account Setting’ icon you will find that the connection is working perfectly.
If you forgot your NEW password for Outlook desktop, go back to your yahoo account setting online and generate back a new app password. Outlook desktop will work as long as you did not generate any new app password.
Hope this helps. It did for me big time. Such a relief!
ddjj says
TC Nichols – You’ll need a Special password from the Yahoo site, to be used with Outlook. Not the current password!
see here https://login.yahoo.com/account/security
and then at the bottom ‘ Manage applications passwords’ and then choose from the list desktop Outlook & generate a password for it.
TC Nichols says
You no longer get a three tab dialog box when adding an email account to Outlook 2016. Now you get 1) enter email, 2) identification of server, encryption and SPA, 3) enter password.
After that, its pass or fail with no further explanation. If fail, you can “Retry” or “Change Account Type” to POP or gmail, etc.
So now what?
AG says
Thank you. So much. Brilliant. Life-saver. Thank you.
Erik Vlieks says
Thanks, it worked, although I had to make a couple of edits in steps 7 but it was a matter of trial and error. Speaking of errors, I do get prompted with the following when trying to delete my yahoo messages: “The operation cannot be performed because the object has been deleted”. Any thoughts on why that is happening?
Patrick says
I am using Outlook 2010 on Windows 7. I am having difficulty getting it to work. Any suggestions. Thanks
Julian Garcia says
OK It worked but you instructions would be clearer if you had said
“Password: Your Yahoo password. If you have enabled “Two-step verification”, you will have to create an app password.” and use that password instead of your normal password.
Yew Koh says
the instructions for setting up Yahoo in Outlook Mail worked !
Clem says
It worked! OMG, I had tried everything else on net without success
5 Stars *****
Nick Underwood says
Well look at that…it f*cking worked! Thank you