What Are the SMTP Settings for Yahoo Mail?

If you use Yahoo Mail, you may use the service's online portal to send, receive, organize, and manage email. You're not limited to using the webmail version. You can use a separate client, such as Outlook, to send email through Yahoo's servers. One advantage of setting up email this way is that you can manage your email accounts in a single application. To set up your email client to send mail through Yahoo Mail, you'll need the SMTP settings.

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which is a standard commonly used to send an email.

The SMTP server settings apply to outgoing mail, so they're the same whether POP or IMAP is used for incoming email. In most cases, enter the SMTP settings in the Settings section of the client interface when you add the Yahoo account to it.

Here's the information you'll enter into the email program to send Yahoo Mail: 

• Yahoo Mail SMTP server address: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
• Yahoo Mail SMTP username: Your full Yahoo email address (including @yahoo.com)
• Yahoo Mail SMTP password: Your Yahoo Mail password
• Yahoo Mail SMTP port: 465 or 587
• Yahoo Mail SMTP TLS/SSL required: yes

These settings work with most desktop, mobile, and web email programs and services. After you set up Yahoo Mail in your preferred email client, your mail and Yahoo folders appear in both locations.

To download mail from Yahoo Mail to your email program, enter the Yahoo Mail IMAP or POP3 server settings, whichever is appropriate for your account.