Add Your Yahoo mail Account to iPhone Using IMAP
To set up your iPhone work with Yahoo:
- From the iPhone Home screen, choose Settings
- Tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars
- In the Accounts section, tap Add Account
- Choose your email account type. For setting up email to work with IMAP choose other
- Select Add Mail Account under the Mail section
- Enter your information as below, Then tap Next
Name : Just give a name
Address : Yahoo mail address
Password : Yahoo mail password
Description : You can type a description for your mail
- On the next screen, enter your Incoming Mail Server tap Next
Host Name : imap.mail.yahoo.com
User Name : Yahoo mail user name
Password : Yahoo mail password
- Next screen, enter your Outgoing Mail Server tap Next
Host Name : smtp.mail.yahoo.com
User Name : Yahoo mail user name (Optional)
Password : Yahoo mail password (Optional)
- Then its Verifying your account
- Select both your Mail and Notes, tap Save
- Now you can check your Yahoo mails from iPhone
Setting up your Sent folder properly
- Start at the home screen
- Go to Settings
- Choose Mail, Contacts, Calendar
- Select your IMAP account
- Choose the Account (e.g., user@mail.com)
- Scroll to the very bottom and Choose Advanced
- Change each of the Mailbox Behaviors items as needed (e.g., Choose Sent Mailbox and check "Sent Items")
- Go back to Advanced (top left)
- Back to Account (top left)
- Done
