How to configure Yahoo to access your email

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This article will assist you with configuring your Yahoo account to access an email address that is hosted on an InMotion Hosting server.

Please Note:
This article was written using Yahoo's new email interface. If you're using the older Yahoo mail interface, you're in luck as the official Yahoo documentation on this setup here is for the older mail interface:
http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/cg/mail/cg_ext_access1.html

Log into your Yahoo mail account.

In the upper right hand corner, click Options and then click More Options...
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In the left menu, click Accounts. Then click Add Account
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Fill out the information on the page under New Account(). Use the following settings under Receiving Mail:

Username: user@domain.com
Password: ********
Enter your email address password
Server: mail.domain.com
Be sure to replace domain.com with your actual domain name.

After filling out all of the necessary information, click the Save Changes button in the upper left.
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Yahoo, by default, will not automatically POP the newly added account. To do so, click the drop-down arrow to the right of Check Mail and click Check all accounts
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