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Why am I being asked to accept a new TOS agreement?
How do I get Yahoo! Mail?
What are these shortcut keys I keep hearing about?
Deleting and Recovering Mail
How do I delete mail?
Can I recover an email that has been deleted?
Is mail automatically deleted?
How long until mail in Trash is deleted?
Sending Mail
How do I start a new email?
Can I send the same mail message to more than one person?
How do I switch from Plain Text to Rich Text (color, font, size and style choices), or back to Plain Text?
How do I send an email?
Can I unsend an email?
If I send a message to someone, can I tell if they've received and read it?
Can I change the time stamp on outgoing mail?
Why was my email neither received nor bounced?
What do "Cc:" and "Bcc:" mean?
Composing the Message Text
I made a mistake entering my recipient's email address. Can I change it?
How do I change font sizes?
Can I change how my name appears on my outgoing email?
How do I use the Rich Text toolbar to get type-style features like color and font choices?
How do I add a Web Image to my Signature?
How do I send email to a single contact or multiple contacts?
How do I add or change a signature?
How do I put a link or URL into an email?
How do I check the spelling in an email?
How do I use the blue boxes that appear around email addresses and contacts?
Do I use categories to make groups and send to them?
My contact block is red.
Receiving Mail
How do I read an email?
Someone sent me an email and I haven't received it. What happened?
What is the Show Preview/Hide Preview button?
Can I read my emails in another language?
Viewing Your Mail
Why are some words in my emails underlined and turned into links?
What’s the Reading/Preview Pane?
Can I hide the details in the email header?
How do I print an email?
What are headers, and what are my header viewing options?
Replying and Forwarding Mail
How do I reply to an email?
How do I forward an email?
Using the reply bar to respond to Facebook posts
Can I turn off the “Shortcuts” feature so words and phrases are not hyperlinked?
What is the Reply Bar?
Sending Attachments
I'm having trouble attaching a file.
Why are my attachments larger after I attach them?
How do I add an attachment to an email?
Receiving Attachments
Why doesn't an attachment open and appear correctly?
How can I download ALL attachments?
Can I view a slideshow of the photos I get from someone?
Announcing Your Address or Vacation
How do I create a vacation response?
Features
Can I hide the ads in Yahoo! Mail?
Migrating to New Yahoo! Mail
Will my experience using Yahoo! Mail on a mobile device be affected if I upgrade to the newest version of Yahoo!Mail?
Will anything happen to my account or my inbox when I switch to the new version of Yahoo! Mail?
Can I switch back to a previous version of Mail?
Upgrading to the new Yahoo! Mail