Yahoo! Mail: Emailing Basics Help

Getting Started

• 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