Activate SSL on your Yahoo mail account
▶ Yahoo
has recently introduced SSL encryption to their email users. If you
have one, then learn to activate SSL on your Yahoo mail account and
increase its security further.
▶ SSL
stands for Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol that encrypts data at
the sender and decrypts data at the receiver making unauthorized
access to the data practically impossible.
▶ Just
login to your Yahoo mail, click on Settings
icon at
the top left of the screen, now choose Mail
Options from
the drop down list. Next, scroll to the bottom of the page and tick
the Turn
on SSL and
click Save at
the top. That’s it.
▶ For
a detailed step-by-step tutorial along with screenshots, scroll down
the article.
▶ I
would strongly recommend all Yahoo Mail users to turn this feature on
for greater security of your emails.
For
those of you who don’t know, Yahoo was the first company to start a
search engine and not Google. Yahoo! Inc. was founded by Jerry
Yang and David Filo in January 1994.
Again,
Yahoo was first to even start their free email service called Yahoo!
Mail.
It was started in the year 1997.
But
as years passed, Google out of its sheer innovation and simplicity
has simply taken over Yahoo.
However,
Yahoo! Mail is still the third largest web-based email service
provider and the most popular webmail service provider in the US.
Currently,
Yahoo! offers three versions of Yahoo! Mail. The traditional “Yahoo!
Mail Classic” introduced in 1997, the second version introduced in
2005 included a new Ajax interface, drag-and-drop, improved
search functionality, keyboard shortcuts, address auto-complete,
tabs, and more and the final was in Oct 2010, which included a new
design, improved performance, improved search functionality, and
improved Facebook integration.
In
spite of all those firsts, Yahoo is the last of its competition to
introduce SSL encryption for Yahoo Mail users. Google and Microsoft
already have SSL encryption enabled by default on their Gmail and
Outlook services.
Yahoo
has automatic SSL protection enabled for their apps on Android, iOS
and Windows 8, however not for signed in users in a desktop web
browser.
Just
do a quick check if you want to verify this, the account login page
uses the SSL (you will notice a https:// in the address bar), but
once you are logged-in, there will be no SSL (you will only see
http://) .
Now
most of you would ask me – What is SSL and why do we need it? Does
it make any difference?
What is SSL? Why do we need it?
SSL stands
for Secure Sockets Layer.
It
is a protocol that encrypts data at the sender and decrypts data at
the receiver making unauthorized access to the data practically
impossible.
Thus,
having SSL enabled on your Yahoo! Mail can prevent unauthorized
parties from gaining access to sensitive, confidential, or personal
information that you send in your emails.
Well,
if you thoroughly want to know more about SSL and its working, here
is the SSL
webopedia link for
you.
In
my opinion, SSL is very important for any email service. Even though
it’s optional for Yahoo Mail users, I would strongly recommend
you to turn it on for security purposes.
So,
in this article, you will learn to activate
SSL on your Yahoo mail account.
How to activate SSL on your Yahoo Mail Account?
1. Just
login to your Yahoo Mail.
2. On
the right top of the screen, you will find the Settings icon,
just click on it and select Mail
Options as
seen in the screen-shot below.
3. Now,
scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will find a checkbox
saying Turn
on SSL –
“Make your Yahoo! Mail more secure with SSL (i.e. preventing others
from accessing your account at Internet cafes)”.
Just
tick the checkbox.
A
notification pops up telling you that Yahoo! Mail needs to refresh
once you hit on the save button. Click on OK.
Next,
click Save at the top of the screen.
4. Now,
you should see a lock and https:// as seen in the screen shot below.
SSL supported browsers for Yahoo! Mail
These
are some of the browsers that currently support SSL for Yahoo Mail on
Windows PC:
- Firefox 3.5 and higher
- Chrome 5.0 and higher
- Internet Explorer 7.0 and higher
- Safari 4.0 and higher
Final Thoughts
It’s
good to see Yahoo making some efforts to better its email service.
This
is definitely a welcome feature as it would protect your emails from
unauthorized access from other people.
Hope
this article helped you to activate
SSL on your Yahoo mail account.
Let
me know if you find problems in enabling SSL on your Yahoo Mail via
the comments below.
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