Can you use Outlook, to send and read your Yahoo! Mail?  YES!

Yahoo! offers POP access to Yahoo! Mail as a free feature exclusively for Yahoo! Delivers members. If you agreed to receive special offers in your mailbox when you registered for Yahoo! Mail, you're automatically a member of Yahoo! Delivers.

If you aren't signed into your account, you can check your status or become a Yahoo! Delivers member by doing the following:

1. Sign into your Yahoo! Mail account.
2. Click on "Options" on the left-hand navigation bar.
3. Click on "Yahoo! Delivers" on the Options Page.
4. Click "Yes" under Sign Up.
5. Fill out the rest and click the "Finished" button.

Once you've completed these steps, you're ready to set up your Yahoo! Mail account so you can read your messages on the Web and also through another email program. Click on "Options" and then on "POP Access & Forwarding" and follow the directions on the screen.

Outlook allows you to add a new email account to your existing profile. This means you do not have to replace your current settings in order to send and receive Yahoo! Mail messages.

Open Outlook now.

• Microsoft Outlook 98 and 2000

To add a new email account to your existing profile:

1. From the Tools menu, select "Accounts." If you do not see "Accounts," place your cursor over the two arrows at the bottom of the list to display more choices.
2. Click the "Add" button.
3. From the Add menu, click "Mail."
4. Type your name as you would like it to appear when you send a message in the Display name box and click "Next."
5. In the Email Address box, enter your Yahoo! Mail address (for example, "user@yahoo.com") and click "Next."
6. In the box labeled "My incoming mail server is a..." select "POP3" server.
7. In the Incoming mail (POP3 or IMAP) server box, type "pop.mail.yahoo.com"
8. In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server box, type "smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
9. Click "Next."
10. In the Account Name box, enter your Yahoo! Mail name (your address without the "@yahoo.com").
11. In the Password box, enter your Yahoo! Mail password.
12. Do not check "Log On Using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)."
13. Click "Next."
14. Type a name for your new Internet email account (for example, Yahoo! Mail).
15. Choose the appropriate connection type under the Which Method Do You Use to Connect to the Internet heading.
16. If you chose "Connect using my phone line," you will need to select a dial-up connection in the Dial up Connection Wizard and click "Next."
17. Click "Finish."

To control deletion of messages from the Yahoo! Mail server:

18. From the Tools menu, select "Accounts."
19. Click on the "Mail" tab.
20. Select your Yahoo! Mail account and click "Properties."
21. Click on the "Advanced" tab.
22. Check "Leave a copy of messages on server" if you want to save your Yahoo! Mail messages on the Yahoo! Mail server as well as on your local computer. Do not check this box if you want your messages to be deleted from the Yahoo! Mail server once you have received them in Outlook Express.
23. Click "OK."
24. Close Microsoft Outlook and restart the Outlook program