How to reconfigure Yahoo mail in Outlook 2003?

UK Yahoo! Mail with Outlook 2003 - Definitive POP/SMTP Settings?

• Hi all, Please note that this relates to UK and not US mail access . I'm trying to setup Outlook 2003 with UK Yahoo Mail as per: http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/pop/pop-06.html In all cases, "My Outgoing Server requires authentication" is checked. The account is not logged on via the web during testing. Laptop running Vista. I've tried: POP3 pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk (port 110), no SSL SMTP smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk (port 25), no SSL (get "pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk - Receiving" - reported error (0x800CCC92): Your email server rejected your login. Verify username and password in account properties... -ERR Error logging on please visit mail.yahoo.com) So as per the URL above, change SMTP from port 25 to 587 but this tells me "Outlook cannot logon to the SMTP server" Based on other posts I've also tried using: POP3 Port 995 using SSL, SMTP Port 465 using SSL with .co.uk/.com servers but still fails. Driving me nuts! Any ideas? TIA, Stu.

• Answer:

  You do have a POP mail service with Yahoo and not just the free web mail? When you click test my settings how many check marks are green? If it is not able to login to outgoing or incoming then you need to call Yahoo something is not right in your password or User ID. If it is just an SMTP error, it should be set to use the same settings as my incoming server; however you could tick the other and enter password and ID there also and see what happens. As far as the ports I would stay with 110, 25 or for POP3 the 587. Possible password issues, cap locks on? Not likely but.... You might try pinging the addresses from a command prompt to see if it might be a firewall or security software issue I just tried pinging both servers and was able. Type cmd in the run box. At a command prompt type "ping smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk" and then the POP server. You should receive 4 returns. If it times out then stop any security software you are running (ie Norton Internet security). If by chance you are trying this with a free web account you need to use YPOPs and set the servers to local 127.0.0.1 , but it sounds like you have a POP mail account with them. Try the ping test and see what you get.