Yahoo-Intellisync: Synchronise Address Books

Yahoo-Intellisync allows you to synchronize your address book (plus other data)  between your desktop email client and Yahoo Webmail. This is extremely useful if you find that you use Yahoo email to communicate when away from your normal PC.

It is possible as discussed in the Yahoo Webmail articles to use Yahoo to collect email from various sources and have them appear in your Yahoo mailbox.

Yahoo-Intellisync gives you access to your normal address book when using Yahoo email. Because it synchronises the address books it will add new contacts either to the Yahoo contact list if you update your Outlook Express contacts or vice versa.

Using Yahoo-Intellisync

You need first to install the Yahoo-Intellisync on your client machine (PC).  To do this:

1.  Open your mailbox

2. Select addresses and choose Synchronize.

3. You will be taken to the download page

4. Click install and copy the setup file to your PC

5. Double click the setup file and install

Once installed

1. Click the intellisync icon and you should see the following:

Click Setup and enter your Yahoo ID and password as shown below:

Click applications settings here you choose what to synchronise: address book, Calendar, Notepad, To do list (client dependent see below). Select the applications to sync.

When finished click ok an you return to the screen below:

Now click sync to begin the synchronisation. A summary screen appear informing you of the changes that will be made. Either  accept or cancel and you are finished

Intellisync for Yahoo! currently supports and works with:
 Outlook 2003, Outlook Express 6.0, Pocket PCs, ACT! 2000 and 6.0, Lotus 6.0