Yahoo Mail Settings: The Beginners Guide

Yahoo mail settings allow you to send and receive an email through other email programs. You can check your emails by using Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Apple Mail. But what are the settings that you need to do? Well, here are they.

Yahoo Mail Settings 

The following are the IMAP (Internet Mail Transfer Protocol) and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) settings that you will need to do to access your Yahoo mail account from another desktop email program.

Yahoo! IMAP Settings  

  • Yahoo IMAP Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
  • Yahoo IMAP Port: 993
  • Yahoo IMAP Username: Your full Yahoo email address
  • Yahoo IMAP Password: Your Yahoo email password
  • Yahoo IMAP Security: SSL/TLS
  • Authentication Required: Yes

Yahoo! SMTP Settings 

  • Yahoo SMP Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
  • Yahoo IMAP Port: 465
  • Yahoo SMTP Username: Your full Yahoo email address
  • Yahoo SMTP password: Your Yahoo email password
  • Yahoo SMTP Security: SSL/TLS
  • Authentication Required: Yes

In addition to all these Yahoo mail settings, you must know that you can send 500 emails a day or email to 100 connections a day. There are many benefits of using desktop email programs as they have a vast number of options and features. You can also see your email when you are offline or when your PC is not connected with the internet.


Yahoo! A complete Package

When you talk about the email and browsing platforms, then a few names come in your mind. One is Google, and another is Yahoo. Indeed Yahoo being one of the early email programs, and it is an industry benchmark now. Yahoo is our part of life through different platforms such as Content delivery, Communications, and Advertising.

Yahoo is a big database to gather content, and it has dedicated websites for people from different genres. If you are fond of sports, then go for the Yahoo Sports; the finance analysts can watch Yahoo Finance and a couple of other sites like games, TV, music, news, and much more.

Besides, Yahoo serves as a communication medium through Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Groups, and Yahoo Instant Messenger. And that’s where the Yahoo mail settings play a vital role. Using simple settings and fill in a few details, you can check the email from other mailing programs (explained at the beginning of this article). Moreover, there is no need to use the Yahoo.com interface for this purpose.

Yahoo mail security settings

Yahoo never compromises on your mail’s security and privacy. But it never enforces you for that purpose, and that’s why Yahoo provides the toggle switch to “Allow apps that use the less secure sign-in.” For this switch, Yahoo says that “some non-Yahoo apps and devices use less secure sign-in technology, which could leave your account vulnerable. You can turn off access (which Yahoo recommends) or choose to use them, despite the risks.” That means when any non-Yahoo server tries to access your Yahoo mail account and if it doesn’t pass the security standards, then it gets blocked by Yahoo (when that switch is off). While you can turn on the switch to enable the less secure apps to access your Yahoo account but that would be a potential threat to your account’s information. And still, if you have to enable the less secure apps, then here is how you can do it with additional Yahoo mail settings.

  1. Firstly, you will need to login to your Yahoo mail account.
  2. Navigate to the Account Info.
  3. Click Account Security.
  4. Now toggle-on the switch in front of “Allow apps that use the less secure sign-in.”

If you cannot see this option on your screen, then probably you might have turned on the two-step verification. You will need to turn off this additional security feature, and after that, you can turn off the button to “Allow apps that use the less secure sign-in.”

Contact Yahoo mail support team 

Whether you need to access your Yahoo email or want to learn more about Yahoo mail settings, we are here to support you. Our highly trained team can help you fix any issue with Yahoo Mail. We have a dedicated helpline number where you can talk to the experts explaining your concerns about email. Furthermore, our services are 24 X 7 available. Contact us now for immediate assistance.

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