How to Access Yahoo Mail in Gmail

Get all your Yahoo Mail messages in your Gmail inbox

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Heinz Tschabitscher
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  • University of Vienna
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Updated on May 3, 2021
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What to Know

  • In Gmail, select gear icon > See all settings. Go to Accounts and Import, select Check mail from other accounts > Add a mail account.
  • Enter your Yahoo email address, select Next, select Link accounts with Gmailify, select Next. Follow the prompts and select Agree > Close.
  • To send an email from Yahoo, go to Accounts and Import > Send mail as > Reply from the same address the message was sent to.

This article explains how to get Yahoo Mail on Gmail using Gmailify. You can also send messages using your Yahoo email address when you sync Yahoo Mail with Gmail.

How to Get Yahoo Emails on Gmail

To set up Gmail to receive and send messages from your Yahoo Mail account:

  1. In Gmail, select the gear icon and choose See all settings.

    The "See All Settings" button in Gmail

  2. Select Accounts and Import.

    The Accounts and Import tab

  3. In the Check mail from other accounts section, select Add a mail account.

    The "Add a mail account" option

  4. In the Email address text box, enter your Yahoo Mail address, then select Next.

    The "Add a mail account" window

  5. Select Link accounts with Gmailify and select Next.

    The "Use account with Gmailify" option

    The other option removes your messages from Yahoo Mail. Use Gmailify to manage your Yahoo account from either Yahoo Mail or from Gmail.

    Gmailify doesn't require a subscription to Yahoo Mail Pro. Before Gmailify launched in 2016, you couldn't send or receive Yahoo Mail messages through your Gmail account without subscribing to Yahoo's premium service.

  6. In the Yahoo Mail login screen, enter your username and password, adjust the permissions, and then select Agree.

    The confirmation button in Yahoo

  7. In the You've been Gmailified window, select Close.

    The Close button

  8. In Gmail, go to Settings > Accounts and Import to verify that the settings are configured as you intended. By default, Gmail replies to all messages from your Gmail address. To change this setting, go to the Send mail as section and select Reply from the same address the message was sent to.

    The "When Replying to a Message" option

  9. Return to this screen at any time to unlink your Yahoo Mail account. Select unlink next to your Yahoo Mail address.

    The Unlink command

  10. In the next window, either keep or delete the imported mail from your Yahoo Mail account. Choose the option you want and click Unlink to complete the process.

    The Unlink Account window
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