"Hi Yahoo users! Facing problems in working with Yahoo mail? Frustrated with the frequent Yahoo mail outages? Work getting stuck due to Yahoo mail down? Not getting the rightful support from Yahoo resolving your mail errors? Afraid of the important data in Yahoo webmail being hacked or modified? Thinking of downloading Yahoo emails to hard drive for a safe side? Trying to move Yahoo emails to Outlook for comfort email usage and backup?"

If these problems come across you and you are eager to find solutions for the same get along with the article to get your issues resolved easily and effectively.

Yahoo emails have emerged to one among the largest growing email client having a user limit of above 281 million users, by 2011 and started supporting multiple other email clients by 2015. As this email client emerged, thus raised up the issues occurring in Yahoo mail.

The issue that majorly affected all the Yahoo users is the Yahoo mail outage. This issue locked out all the users from signing into their Yahoo accounts and working on it. Though, the issue got resolved after a meanwhile time. But is not a solution that could be held all the time. This issue sometimes leads to loss of data (important emails), thus, leading the user into more trouble.

Other issues that started revolving around the Yahoo mail users are emails not being sent and not being received due to some mistakes and over-flooding of storage space allotted. Yahoo provided the solution for these errors as well but these solutions were not that satisfactory and user required a better move to avoid these errors.

Seeing all the factors, this article is posted for users who feel to get a reliable solution for their Yahoo related issues and comfort usage of their emails.

Techniques to Protect Yourself from Yahoo mail Outage

If the user has a backup of all the emails of yahoo mail on the local hard drive, then the issue of Yahoo mail outage won’t affect the user in any way. The user can easily import the downloaded Yahoo emails on any other web email client or simply on a desktop based email client and work on it when the Yahoo mail Outage strikes the users.

One thing that is important to note is Yahoo mail does not provide a direct backup of the emails in it. Thus, an indirect method is to be applied. Indirect method states two ways in it that corresponds to

Move Yahoo emails to another email client
Save yahoo emails on local hard drive

Export Yahoo mail to Outlook

This is a manual method that is mainly recommended or the technical users as any single simple mistake can take down the whole process. And usually, errors occur during this indirect migration process. In this method the Yahoo mails get configured, in other words, is added to another email client so that another email client could access the yahoo emails and modify the contents as well and even download the same locally. Here, Outlook is preferred as this email client provides good service and supports multiple email clients efficiently, also can directly backup email files to local hard drive. Now, let’s get to the process of adding Yahoo mail to Outlook mail client.

Steps for adding Yahoo emails to MS Outlook

Follow the steps below to get Yahoo mail added to Outlook

Pre-Requisites on Yahoo
1. Access Yahoo mail
2. Move to Menu(gear) >>> Account Info
3. Go to Account security and give access to Allow apps that use less secure sign in option
  Note: If two-step verification is enabled, create an app password before proceeding or else, disable the option for enabling above option.
Add Yahoo mail to Outlook
1. Launch Outlook email application
2. Go to File>>Info and click Add Account button
3. Opt. Manual setup or additional server types & proceed
4. Choose POP or IMAP option
5. Provide Yahoo mail information
  1. User Information: mention First & Last name
  2. Server Information: provide the following
    - Account Type: IMAP
    - Incoming mail server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
    - Outgoing mail server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
  3. Logon Information: provide Yahoo account credential
6. Move to More Settings
  1. Outgoing Server tab: Check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication checkbox
  2. Advanced tab:
    - Incoming server (IMAP): 993 Encryption: SSL
    - Outgoing server (SMTP): 465 Encryption: SSL
7. Proceed Next to test configuration
8. Select Finish to exit
This above-displayed process is a bit lengthy and needs to be done with at most attention. Any error causes to redo the whole process again. That’s why this method not recommended for non-technical users. The next method seems quite simpler than this method and could be easily performed by all the yahoo users for downloading yahoo emails.
Download Yahoo emails on Local Hard Drive

This indirect method call for the use of a professional tool that automatically saves all the yahoo emails on the desktop in the user desired format. This downloaded file could be then used at other email application as per their requirement. And also the retention period of these backup files is forever. One such fonded software is SysTools Yahoo Email Backup Tool . The application provides a very simple procedure to backup Yahoo emails with an outstanding GUI. Also, there is no time wastage and is recommended for all Yahoo email users. Let’s have a look over the backup steps functioned. For that, you have to install the software onto your computer and run it through the administrator. Then,
1. Select backup format type (PST/EML/MSG/MBOX)
2. Browse location for backup file on system
3. Apply functions for user choice downloads
4. Start download process.
And thus the email file could be viewed on the system of the specified format. This file is a safeguard to all your important emails in yahoo which could be restored to any other email client whenever it is required. If required for its use, it is suggested to import the emails into any desktop based email client so that you can work with the emails even if the ISP is shut down for a while. Some suggested email clients could be Mozilla Thunderbird, MS Outlook, etc.

Summing Up!!

In this article, we have surrounded some of the issues occurred in the Yahoo mail that leads to the user frustration and searches for solutions to resolve them. One major issue among them being the Yahoo mail Outage, which is discussed throughout with all the possible solutions, including a reliable method named Yahoo emails backup to be used by all users as their workaround for resolving Outage issue permanently.

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