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Mel1
New Contributor II
9 months ago

Email Switch to Yahoo and Outlook

Unable to connect Outlook using POP or IMAP instructions for Yahoo Mail.  It appears Yahoo is not set up for Outlook to connect our Cox.net email accounts to their POP or IMAP servers (pop.mail.yahoo...
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wirewheels
New Contributor II

I have the same question.  Outlook assumes I want to connect to a cox server and not Yahoo because of my cox.net email address.  There seems to be no way to change this.  My apple devices do not have this problem however.

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mbarrett8
New Contributor II
8 months ago

If you are on a pc, you can go into the control panel then mail and make changes to the server settings.  I tried two different email accounts, one IMAP the other a POP Cox account, but changing the server settings to the Yahoo servers didn't help.  I still would not connect.