Yahoo Email Setup for T-Mobile Phones

In this post we are going to completely cover on how to setup yahoo email for your T-Mobile phones directly from your T-Mobile phone. I have received a lot of emails inquiring about the same thing therefore I figure out that it is best if I post a whole post in setting your incoming and outgoing yahoo emails on your T-Mobile phones. Depending on your mobile phones, the setting might differ here and there but if you do have any concern with setting up your email, please contact me or leave your comment for further assistance. I’ll try my best to find out how to assist you.

First of all before you can change the configuration to receive or send Yahoo email from your tmobile phone would be to first sign up for Yahoo email. It might sound funny to you but some people are just too eager to setup email account on their T-Mobile phones that they forgot that they don’t have an account with Yahoo yet in the first place. I don’t blame them since these days most new mobile phones have been equipped with the technology to send and receive emails and due to the fact that it is easy to set them up on the mobile phone, no one can resist the temptation to experience the tech on their own.

It might be useful as well if you setup a different Yahoo email account dedicated just for your T-Mobile phones. This is to avoid from downloading existing emails in your account that could sometime take forever. When you download bulk of existing emails, it will also consume a bit of your airtime, so please make a wise decision on this. Setting up a new yahoo email account is not that difficult and we are going to start from that point.

Ok let’s move on.

Registering for Yahoo Email Account

When you go to Yahoo homepage, look for a section that starts with “Check your mail status:”. There are supposed to be two links there; one is “Sign in” which is for existing users and another one is “Sign Up”. Click on the Sign Up link. The next page should be a form where you have to enter your personal details as follows:

1. Tell us about yourself… - this is where you enter your first and last name, your gender, your birthdates, where you live and your residential zip code or postal code. Don’t worry, if you do not feel like sharing your real information, you may make up a fake one to just to protect your online privacy.

2. Select an ID and password – this is where you choose your desired login name or ID which will then be your email address. You can also choose from three different email domains; regular @yahoo.com, @ymail.com, or @rocketmail.com. There is a “Check” button where you can check whether someone else has chosen the login name. This is also where you enter your own unique case-sensitive password. Keep in mind that you should use at least six characters for the password and try to make it as a combination of numbers and letters. Use special characters or symbol if possible. Since it is case-sensitive, you can also mix both lower and upper case. The more unique your password is, the more secure it will be and the harder it is to be cracked.

3. In case you forget your ID or password… - if you have another email address, you can enter it here. This is for the purpose of sending you a password reminder to another email in case you forget your password. Just leave the field blank if you don’t have any and proceed with setting up your security question.

4. Just a couple of more details… - Yahoo has installed this feature to avoid people from spamming or simply want to create fake registrations using auto form-filler application. Thanks to them, now you have to type the code shown on the page. There will also be a radio check box where you have to tick it to confirm that you have read and agree to the Yahoo terms of service and Yahoo privacy policy. Oh yes, please ensure that you really read them..;-)

Once you are done, click on the “Create My Account” button and wait for a few seconds for your Yahoo email account to be setup. You should get a notification on the screen with the summary of your Yahoo email account. Click on the “Continue” button and that should bring you to your Yahoo email homepage.

For the purpose of this guide, let say the account you have setup is prepaidmobilephones123@yahoo.com and the password is m081LeP40n3.

Moving on swiftly…;-)

Configuration for Yahoo Email Account to be put into your T-Mobile Phone

We will first start with setting up the incoming email configuration for T-Mobile phone. The username should be your email address without putting in @yahoo.com. So it should be just prepaidmobilephones123 not prepaidmobilephones123@yahoo.com. Put in your password and make sure you put them exactly like how you entered them previously. In our case here, it should be m081LeP40n3. After that you have to change the IMAP server to “imap.mail.yahoo.com” (without the quotes, of course…). Change the port to “143” and then change the security type to TLS if the option is available. You may then have to set up the IMAP path prefix, but in our case here, you should just leave it blank where it should read as “Optional”. That concludes our incoming Yahoo email configuration for T-Mobile phone.

Now we should set up the outgoing Yahoo email settings for T-Mobile phone. Change the SMTP server to “smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com” and change the port to “25”. Again if the security type option is available, set it to “TLS”. There will be an option to be ticked or checked which is “require to sign-in”. Ensure that you check that option. There will also be fields to fill up for username and password. Again, put in your username “prepaidmobilephones123” without @yahoo.com and enter your case-sensitive password.

That should pretty much sum up on how to setup your Yahoo email account in your T-Mobile phone. I have also found out how to setup your Yahoo email in T-Mobile Wing mobile phone. Below are the steps on how to set it up. Setting up Yahoo email in T-Mobile Wing mobile phone is pretty much the same way but simpler and easier since the T-Mobile Wing has a significantly enhanced interface to help you set up your email accounts.

Steps to Perform to Set Up Yahoo Email in T-Mobile Wing mobile phone

On your mobile phone screen, go to Start>Programs>Set Up E-mail. Select Yahoo Mail and that should bring you to the Yahoo Terms Of Use. Tap on “I Agree” and you should get a page where you have type in your Yahoo ID (username) and password. In our case here, you should type in the email address in full, which is prepaidmobilephones123@yahoo.com and case-sensitive password m081LeP40n3. You can also check the “Save Password” option and then choose your Display Name. It can be anything but I have to remind you that the name you choose here will be displayed to the recipient. You may leave it blank so that your email address will appear on emails you send.

Clicking on the “Next” button should bring you the next page where you will receive a notification informing that the set up process has been completed and the mobile phone should attempt to download your email. Go ahead and click on the “Finish” button to be taken to your Yahoo email inbox.

In my next post, I will guide you on how to set up other e-mail accounts on your T-Mobile phones such as Gmail email account, Outlook email account, AOL or AIM email account, Comcast email accounts, and as well as other email accounts. Trust me, it is easy to set up your email accounts on your T-Mobile phones and we will cover on how to set them up and configure them correctly into your T-Mobile phones.