How to migrate Yahoo to Office 365 using simple steps?

In today’s time, emails are the most common modes of communication among businesses as well as home users. Therefore, to have effective communication, users use applications of their choice. With increasing technology, challenges may come across to migrate Yahoo to Office 365. Yahoo Mail does not match all the needs of business users and they found Office 365 a suitable application. Users switch to Office 365 from Yahoo Mail when they are taking their small business to another level. To resolve how to migrate Yahoo to O365 account, we have discussed a few techniques in this blog.

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Why export Yahoo Mail to Office 365?

To understand the need of migrating Yahoo mailboxes to Office 365, we have discussed a few queries asked by users. That will help you to understand the reason of migrating to Office 365 from Yahoo Mail.

“In today’s era, Yahoo Mail become outdated when compared to other web-based applications like Office 365. Therefore, to avail all advanced features of Office 365, I have decided to switch from Yahoo Mail to Office 365 account. So, I am looking for a solution to migrate Yahoo emails to Office 365 account. “

“Yahoo Mail is suitable for small business firms and Office 365 is found to be suitable for large business organizations. After looking at the benefits of Office 365 like scheduling meetings, safety features, security features, etc. I have decided to move to Office 365 from Yahoo Mail. I don’t know how to migrate Yahoo mailboxes to Office 365, so please suggest a solution.”

Solution to migrate Yahoo to Office 365

Migration between email applications is common and one such email migration is Yahoo to Office 365. To migrate Yahoo to O365, we have discussed some techniques that you can use.

Migrate Yahoo account to Office 365 manually

No direct solution is available to export Yahoo mailboxes to Office 365 account. One can do it via Outlook and import Yahoo emails to Office 365 with it.

Export Yahoo to O365 via PST file

1. Install MS Outlook to perform the migration and launch it.
2. Go to File menu and choose add account. Select manually configure server settings.
3. Choose IMAP or POP3 option and add new account
4. Provide Yahoo account login details.
5. Fill incoming mail server and outgoing mail server details
6. Hit More Settings options
7. Select SMTP authentication option under Outgoing server
8. Under the Advanced tab, provide incoming mail server details like port number and encrypted connection.
9. Hit Ok and click Finish
10. Restart MS Outlook and hit Send/Receive all folders options. You will find Yahoo Mail folders in MS Outlook.
11. Go to the default location to confirm whether Yahoo mailboxes are exported or not.

Move exported Yahoo emails to Office 365 account

You can move Yahoo exported emails in Office 365 either network upload or drive shipping methods. Both methods can import Yahoo exported emails to your Office 365 account.

Reasons for failure of manual method

• Manual process is lengthy and complicated. Novice users are unable to understand the process. They need help of technical experts.
• There might be involvement of data loss risk with the manual solution.

Alternate solution to migrate Yahoo to Office 365

Due to the unavailability of a direct and easy solution to migrate Yahoo emails to Office 365. Also, checking the limitations of the manual solution, we are here with an automated solution i.e. WholeClear Mail Migration. It quickly and efficiently migrates desired or all mailbox folders from Yahoo account to Office 365 account. Only a few simple steps are there with this application.

Conclusion

After understanding the problems of users in migrating Yahoo mailboxes to Office 365 account, we have explained different methods for this email migration in this post. As you can see manual solution contains few limitations, therefore third-party tools are recommended to use.