Working With Drafts and Sent Messages

Introducing the Draft and Sent Folders Saving a Message to the Draft Folder Working With Messages in the Draft Folder Working With Messages in the Sent Folder

Working With Messages in the Sent Folder

When you send an email message, by default BT Yahoo! Mail automatically saves a copy of the message in the Sent folder. You can reply to, forward, and delete messages in the Sent folder.

You can also move messages from the Sent folder into other folders. This is helpful for organising related messages. For example, say you are organising a reunion. You can create a Reunion folder and move all of the messages that you’ve sent about the event from the Sent folder into the Reunion folder. (You can also move related incoming email into the Reunion folder.)

 

Here’s How

  1. Click Sent (Sent folder icon) under Folders on the left side of the BT Yahoo! Mail page.

    Click the Sent folder.

    The Sent folder opens, displaying all the messages you’ve sent that you haven’t already deleted or removed.

  2. You can reply to, forward, or delete a message. These steps are the same as those described in the Receiving Email Messages tutorial.

    Tip: Unlike other mail folders that show you who sent the message, the Sent folder shows who you sent the message to. Keep this in mind when replying to a sent message. Because you are the sender of the message, a Reply to Sender sends the reply to you. If you want to reply to others who received the message, you might want to use the Reply to Everyone option.

    The Sent folder shows who you sent the message to.

  3. You can move a message to another folder. These steps are described in the Managing Your Mailbox tutorial.

    Tip: You cannot move messages from other folders into the Sent folder.

  4. If you don’t want to keep your sent messages, you can stop BT Yahoo! Mail from saving your sent messages. Do this in the Sent folder by clicking the Turn Save Sent Items OFF link just under the Sent Items label.

    Click the Turn Save Sent Items OFF.

    This unchecks the Save option in your General Preferences accessed through the Options link in the upper-right side of the page.

    Tip: If you turn Save Sent Items off, remember to send yourself copies (or blind copies) of any outgoing messages that are important to you. You’ll receive these as incoming email.

 

What’s Next

Use the Draft folder to hold your unfinished email messages until you are ready to send them, and the Sent folder to help you track the messages you send.

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Words to Know

  • 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.
  • Forward: (two uses in BT Yahoo! Mail) to send an email message that you receive on to someone else or to configure BT Yahoo! Mail to send all email messages that come into your BT Yahoo! Mail account to another email address.
  • Reply: to respond to an email message you received.