Yahoo SMTP Settings
Configure SMTP for Yahoo with us
In this guide we are going to share with the simple way how you can connect to Yahoo via SMTP. We promise you, it is not as complicated as it might look at a first glance.
There are multiple steps that you have to perform if you would like to connect your mail app to Yahoo. Our team has tried and tested every part of this process. This way you have a sure way to connect to Yahoo via SMTP.
The first and most important part of the process is having the correct credentials for connection. Your username and password should be the ones that you use to log into your account online.
On top of that, there are some other credentials like Server Address, port number and others which you will need if you want to connect to Yahoo via SMTP.
You can find these credentials below.
Yahoo SMTP Settings
- Server Address: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- Username: Your Yahoo Address (e.g. [email protected])
- Password: Your Yahoo Password
- Port Number: 465 (With SSL)
- Alternative Port Number: 587 (With TLS)
- Authentication: Required
- Sending Limits: 500 Emails a day or Emails to 100 connections a day
What Is Yahoo?
Yahoo’s operations are divided into three parts: content platform, communication and advertising platform.
Content includes Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, OMG, Answers, Games, TV, Music, Local Listings and more. For communication, it has Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Groups.
Yahoo Mail is one of the best email providers after Gmail and Outlook. As of February 2016, it had over 1 billion active users. If you are a Yahoo user, you can have two types of accounts: a basic Yahoo account or a Yahoo Plus email account.
We have another page dedicated to Yahoo Plus Mail. So this page will be about Yahoo Mail.
An added layer of security called “Less secure apps”
Yahoo is also on par with Google in terms of security. Your Yahoo account has an extra level of security called “less secure apps”. When a third-party server tries to read or access your Yahoo Mail account and its security does not meet Yahoo’s standards, Yahoo’s server will block it.
It is generally not recommended to enable the “Less Secure Applications” setting, as it may pose a potential risk to your Yahoo Mail account and compromise your account information. We strongly advise against doing this.
If nothing works, and you still want to use your Yahoo account to set up accounts, tools, or anything else, just select “Less Secure Apps.” It is generally not recommended to enable the “Less Secure Applications” setting, as it may pose a potential risk to your Yahoo Mail account and compromise your account information. We strongly advise against doing this.
If nothing works, and you still want to use your Yahoo account to set up accounts or tools or something, just select “Less secure apps”.
- Follow the steps below to enable less secure apps on your Yahoo account:
- Go to Account Info
- Select “Account Security”
- Enable “Allow Apps that use less secure sign in”
- There is another problem. If you’re tech-savvy or someone who likes privacy, you’ve probably enabled the two-step verification process for your Yahoo account.
If this happens, the “Less secure apps” option is no longer available. - The settings to disable Step Verification look something like this:
- To enable less secure apps, disable two-step verification for your Yahoo account. Then you can easily enable the “Less secure apps” option.