Using Disposable Addresses

This feature is available for BT Yahoo! Online Option 1, 2, 3, and 4 users.
Getting Started Creating Disposable Addresses Seeing Who Uses Your Disposable Addresses Sending Message Using Disposable Addresses Deleting Disposable Addresses

Seeing Who Uses Your Disposable Addresses

When you open an email message that was sent to one of your disposable addresses, you’ll see which address the sender used in the message’s To: box.

Example of an email message addressed to a disposable address.

If you want to see which of your email addresses senders use without opening individual messages, you can set up your mail folders to show this information.

 

Here’s How

  1. Go to the AddressGuard page in the BT Yahoo! Mail. (Remind me how.)

  2. In the AddressGuard Preferences section, click the Show Column link.

    Turning on the display of the To column in mail folders.Enlarge

    A new column now appears in your Inbox and other mail folders, showing which of your email addresses received each message.

  3. Click the Back to Mail Options link near the top of the AddressGuard page to save your settings.

    Click the Back to Mail Options link to save your settings.

    A new column now appears in your Inbox and other mail folders, showing which of your email addresses received each message.

    Recipient addresses display in your mailbox.

    Tip: When the display of the (To) recipient column is turned on, this column appears in all your received mail folders except the Spam folder.

  4. To hide the recipient addresses again, repeat steps 1-3, this time clicking the Do Not Show Column link.

    Turning off the display of the To column.

 

What’s Next

In addition to using disposable addresses for messages your receive, you can also send messages using disposable addresses.

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Words to Know

  • Disposable email address: a customised email address that you create using AddressGuard to protect your regular BT Yahoo! Mail address.
  • Folder: a container that holds individual elements specific to the context; for example, email messages in BT Yahoo! Mail or bookmarks in the Bookmarks Sidebar module.
  • Spam folder: a permanent folder that SpamGuard uses to hold messages it considers spam.