subject: Technical Support for Customizing Yahoo and Hotmail While Using Outlook 2007 [print this page] Technical Support for Customizing Yahoo and Hotmail While Using Outlook 2007
As an user of Windows operating system 07, you are acquainted with organizing your day-to-day task leveraging MS Outlook 2007. Your tech help service provder also helps you while further customizing your enterprise operations.
For instance, while making use of Yahoo and Hotmail for your email and search engine operations, you need to customize with your MS Outlook 2007. You do this operation by configuring the Outlook as per requirement and putting the incoming mail server and the outgoing SMTP server appropriately. You need to select the right ports properly and check it on "my server needs authentication".
A user of MS Outlook 2007 faced a computer problem that after selecting the right ports, the sending was showing successful if he clicked on the "send/receive" button. Yet, receiving was unsuccessful and showing authentication failure.
The user was able to log on to his Yahoo id successfully but could not download mails from Outlook to this Yahoo account.
The user sought the help from his online remote service provider. Earlier, his tech friends opined that in Yahoo the "pop forwarding" has to be enabled. The user could not enable as he had not upgraded to Yahoo mail plus till then. As a result he was told that he was unable to have the POP forwarding facility.
The user then contacted his online computer service provider. Tech help experts attending his computer hurdle using remote repair facility logged on to his yahoo mail. Before that, all his security needs were taken into consideration and online access was done taking permission of the user and each computer operation was carried out in front of his eyes.
Technical experts clicked on mail at the top corner under mail options. "POP and Forwarding" in the left hand pane was clicked.
The user was told by computer repair experts to click on the option "Allow your Yahoo! Mail to be POPed" in the main window. This was done to make the user a part of solution while fixing computer problem. Step-by-step after selecting some more relevant poping options, the computer hurdle was addressed that allowed him to configure Yahoo and Hotmail with his MS Outlook 2007.
