If you're old school like me and still use Yahoo! for your email, you'll find sometimes using a desktop app such as Outlook is useful to have a single view of all your emails. These days, is common to have more than one email, and they may be from different providers, such as Hotmail (Microsoft), GMail, or Yahoo!.
In the past, the IMAP option for Yahoo! Mail was only extended to Premium users. However, these days, all users can have access to it. Here are the steps to add Yahoo! Mail to your Outlook:
Outlook
1. Launch your Outlook
2. Click on File on the top left corner
3. Under the Info tab, click on "Account Settings"
4. On the Account Settings dialog, under the "Email" tab, click on "New.."
5. Enter your Yahoo! email address and click connect
Web Browser
6. Now, open up web browser login to your Yahoo! email
7. When the mail app is loaded, look for your name on top right of the site
8. Click on your name, and then "Account Info"
9. In the new window, look for "Account Security"
10. Click on "Manage app passwords"
11. Click on the "Select your app" and select "Outlook Desktop"
12. It will then generate a 16 alpha character password
13. Copy that password
Outlook
14. Paste the newly generated password into the password field
15. The emails from Yahoo! should now start syncing
For reference, I'm using Outlook Version 1803 (Build 9126.2259 Click-to-Run) with an Office 365 Subscription.
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