Receiving Email Messages

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Replying to a Message

Often after reading an email message, you want to reply to the sender or even to everyone who got the message. BT Yahoo! Mail gives you two ways to reply:

  • Reply to Sender lets you reply to the sender only.

  • Reply to Everyone lets you reply to the sender and everyone else who received the message.

Tip: Be sure you select the appropriate reply option. You can’t stop the delivery of a message once you click the Send button.

 

Here’s How

  1. Open the email message. (Remind me how.)

  2. Click the arrow The Reply arrow  on the Reply button, then select Reply to Sender to reply to the sender only or Reply to Everyone to reply to all recipients of the email message.

    Click the arrow on the Reply button.

    Then select Reply to Sender or Reply to Everyone.

    Tip: To reply to the sender only, you can also click the Reply button and not the arrow.

    Click the Reply button to reply to the sender only.

    The Compose page opens and automatically fills in the address fields with the email addresses of the recipients from the original message, the Subject field with the subject from the original message, and the text field with the text from the original message.

    Tip: When you compose a reply, you don’t have to use the email addresses and subject that BT Yahoo! Mail automatically supplies. You can add and remove email addresses from the address fields and you can change the subject.

    The following figure is an example of a reply to everybody.

    The Compose page with information from the original message.

  3. Enter your reply in the text field.

    Enter your reply in the text field.

    Tip: You can enter your reply anywhere in the text field. For example, if you want to reply to a specific part of the original message, you can type your response within the original text. If you do this, you might want to highlight your response in some way so that your recipients find it easily.

    You can enter your reply anywhere in the text field.

  4. Click the Send button when you’re ready to send your email message.

    Click the Send button.

    BT Yahoo! Mail sends your message to the people listed in the address fields. A confirmation page tells you that your reply has been sent. The mail folder containing the original message shows a Replied icon The Replied icon  next to the email message.

    The Replied icon lets you know that you've replied to this email message.

 

What’s Next

You can forward a message that you’ve received to another person.

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Words to Know

  • Compose page: the page in BT Yahoo! Mail where you address, write, and send email messages.
  • Email address: A contact’s address that identifies an electronic location where email can be sent. An email address includes the contact’s email name followed by the "@" followed by the contact’s email domain, such as "person@domain.com".
  • 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.
  • Reply: to respond to an email message you received.