Yahoo! Mail Quick Start
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Introducing Yahoo! Mail Classic
Welcome to Yahoo! Mail Classic, an application that lets you send and receive email messages from anywhere in the world. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection and a Web browser, and, of course, your very own Yahoo! IDYahoo! Mail. Equipped with these items, you can sign into Yahoo! Mail and start emailing your friends. By the way, we refer to your friends, colleagues, family, whoever, as your contacts.
With Yahoo! Mail, you get unlimited email storage, built-in search to quickly find email, and our award-winning online security.
While you’re emailing, keep your Yahoo! Contacts up to date using the Contacts tab, manage your many social engagements in Yahoo! Calendar, and keep track of your tasks and thoughts with Yahoo! Notepad. These and other services are at your fingertips while you work with Yahoo! Mail Classic.
What’s Next: Learn More
Customising Yahoo! Mail—your Yahoo! Mail Classic, such as adding a signature to your outgoing email and creating a vacation announcement, through the Options page. Access your Yahoo! account so that you can change your name or password.
Opening Yahoo! Mail Your Way—access Yahoo! Mail in a variety of ways, including using the Yahoo! Toolbar and even another email application.
Composing and Sending Email Messages—write and address messages, attach files, and send email.
Creating Distribution Lists—group your contacts into categories (similar to distribution lists) so you can send one email to everyone in the group.
Receiving and Responding to Email Messages—read and reply to messages and forward them to others.
Working With Drafts and Sent Messages—save unsent email in the Drafts folder and save sent messages to the Sent folder.
Using Folders to Organise Your Email—email messages into different folders.
Sorting Incoming Email Into Folders—automatically sort incoming email messages into different folders.
Searching Your Email Messages—find the message you need quickly with the Search tool.
Chatting With Your Contacts and Advanced Chat Features—exchange messages with your friends instantly through Yahoo! Mail Classic’s chat feature.
Protecting Yourself From Spam—protect yourself from unwanted email, often called spam.
Using SpamGuard—use SpamGuard to automatically send spam to your Spam folder.
Using Multiple Yahoo! Email Addresses—create alternate, disposable email addresses to use whenever you don’t want to give out your real Yahoo! Mail address.
Choosing Your Best Email Option—choose the best option for accessing your mail.
Accessing Other Email Accounts—use Yahoo! Mail to receive messages from your other email accounts.
Working Safely With Email Attachments—safely receive and send email attachments.
Getting Started With Yahoo! Contacts—learn how to maintain your contact information in your Yahoo! Contacts.
Words to Know
- Attachment: a separate file included as part of an email message; for example, a multimedia or document file.
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.
- Disposable email address: a customised email address that you create to protect your regular Yahoo! Mail address.
- Distribution list: a group of contacts to whom you want to send the same email message. Yahoo! Mail Classic uses categories as distribution lists.
- Folder: a container that holds individual elements specific to the context; for example, email messages in Yahoo! Mail.
- Signature: a few lines of text that is added automatically to the end of each outgoing message.
- Spam: unsolicited email on the Internet; also called "junk mail".
- Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to the Yahoo! network.