Getting Started With BT Yahoo! Contacts

This feature is available for BT Yahoo! Online Option 1, 2, 3, and 4 users.
What Is BT Yahoo! Contacts? Adding a Contact Editing a Contact Sending Email to Your Contacts Deleting Contacts Working With Lists

Sending Email to Your Contacts

You can send email messages to your contacts in several different ways.

 

Here’s How

To send a message to one contact from BT Yahoo! Contacts:

  1. Open your BT Yahoo! Contacts and select the contact. (Remind me how.)

  2. Click the envelope icon next to the contact’s email address that you want to use.

    Click the envelope next to the email address.

    A new email message tab appears with the contact’s email address automatically entered in the To box.

    The contact's email address is added to the To box on the Message tab.

  3. Compose and send your message as usual.

 

To send a message to one or more contacts from BT Yahoo! Contacts:

  1. Open your BT Yahoo! Contacts and select one or more contacts.

    To select random contacts, hold down the Ctrl key and select individual contacts. To select a series of contacts, select the first contact, hold down the Shift key and select the last contact. You may have to scroll through the list to find the contacts you want.

  2. Right click over one of the highlighted names and select Send Email from the menu.

    Right click on a selected contact and select Send Email from the menu.

    A new email message tab appears with the primary addresses of each contact automatically entered in the To box.

    The contact's email address is added to the To box on the Message tab.

  3. Compose and send your message as usual.

 

To send email to a list:

  1. Open your BT Yahoo! Contacts and select the list that you want to send a message to.

    Select the list.Enlarge

  2. Click the email button to send an email message to all the contacts on the list.

    Click the email button to send a message to the list.

    The name of the list (not the contact names on the list) appears on the email message’s To box. When you send the message, BT Yahoo! Mail adds the email addresses for each contact on the list, so each person gets a copy of the email message.

    Tips:

    To send a message to a list without displaying all the addresses to the recipients, include the list in the Bcc box and your own address in the To box.

    Enter the list name in the Bcc field.

    To learn more about creating and using lists, see the Working With Lists task.

 

To address a message in progress to one or more contacts:

  1. Be sure that the message you want to send or forward is open in a new email message tab. (Remind me how to compose a message or to forward a message.)

  2. Click the To, Cc, or Bcc button to add recipients to the corresponding address box.

    Click the To: button.

    Tip: Click the Show BCC link to display the Bcc box to the address area.

    Click the Show BCC link to make the Bcc box visible.

    The Add Recipients window opens, listing all the contacts for whom you have entered email addresses.

  3. Select the contact or contacts that you want to include (these can be individuals and/or lists):

    • To select more than one contact, hold down the Ctrl key (Windows) or the Apple key (Mac) and select individual contacts.

    • To select a series of contacts, select the first contact in the series, hold down the Shift key and select the last contact in the series.

    Add Recipients Window

  4. Click OK.

    BT Yahoo! Mail adds the selected addresses to the address box.

  5. Repeat step 2 for each address box (To, Cc, and Bcc) you want to use for your message.

 

What’s Next

You can delete a contact from your BT Yahoo! Contacts, if you no longer need it.


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Words to Know

  • Bcc: short for "blind carbon copy"; an email address in this field won’t be visible to any other recipients of the message.
  • Cc: short for "carbon copy"; use this field to add secondary recipients to an email message.
  • Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email message or other communication.
  • List: a group of contacts to whom you want to send the same email message.
  • New message tab: a tab in BT Yahoo! Mail where you address, write, and send a new email message.