Getting Started With Yahoo! Contacts

What Is Yahoo! Contacts? Adding a Contact Editing a Contact Sending Email to Your Contacts Deleting Contacts Working With Lists

Working With Lists

Tired of typing in people’s email addresses? Set up distribution lists for groups (large or small) that you email often. A distribution list is a group of contacts you want to receive the same email message. You can create a distribution list with up to 100 email addresses and then send an email to everyone on the list all at once.

Lists appear in your Yahoo! Contacts, indicated with special icon (List icon). Select a list the same way you select individual contacts.

This task shows you how to:

If you’ve used categories in your Yahoo! Address Book, they appear as lists in the all-new AT&T Mail. See Working With Addresses and Contacts for more information.

 

Here’s How

To create a new list:

  1. Click Contacts on the left navigation bar.

    Click Contacts on the left navigation bar.

  2. Click the Add List button.

    Click the Add List button.

    A list of your contacts displays in the left pane. In the right pane you name the new list and add contacts.

    Name and populate your list in the new list pane.Enlarge

  3. Type a name for the new list.

    Type a list name.

    Tip: List names can’t contain spaces, commas, or single or double quotes.

  4. To add a contact to the list, start typing the name of the contact. When a contact appears with its email address, select the name from the drop-down list.

    Begin typing the name, then select it from the list.

    Tip: If you type a contact that does not have an email address, you’re prompted to type in that address. Once you’re done, click the Add Contact to List button.

  5. To remove a contact from the list, select that contact and press the Delete button on your computer.

    Tip: The contact is removed from the current list only, not from Yahoo! Contacts or any other list.

  6. When you finish adding contacts to the new list (you can add up to 100 contacts), click the Save button.

    Click the Save button.

    The new list name appears on your contact list. When you select it, the names of the list appear in the right pane.

    Select the list to see the contacts that it contains.Enlarge

 

To send email to a list:

  1. Select the distribution list that you want to send a message to from your list of contacts.

  2. Click the email button to send an email message to all the contacts on the list.

    Click the email button to send a message to the list.

    Initially, the name of the list (not the names on the list) appears on the email message’s To box. When the message is sent, however, each person on the list gets a copy of the email message and all contact names and email addresses appear in the To: field.

    Tip: To send a message to a list without displaying all the addresses to the recipients, include the list in the Bcc box and your own address in the To box.

    Enter the list name in the Bcc field.

 

To add contacts to an existing list:

Any time after you create a distribution list, you can edit it to add or remove contacts.

  1. Select the distribution list that you want to edit from your list of contacts.

  2. Click the Edit button to open the list for editing.

    Click the Edit button.

  3. Follow the steps for creating a new list to add or remove contacts from the list.

  4. Click the Save button when you’ve finished making your changes.

 

To rename a list:

  1. Select the distribution list that you want to rename from your list of contacts.

  2. Click the Edit button to open the list.

    Click the Edit button.

  3. Replace the existing name with a new name.

  4. Click the Save button when you’ve finished making your changes.

 

To delete a list:

If you no longer need a distribution list, you can delete it just as you’d delete any other contact.

  1. Select the list you want to delete on your list of contacts.

  2. Click the Delete button on the screen or press the Delete key on your computer’s keyboard.

    Click the Delete button.

    A message prompts you to confirm that you want to delete the list.

  3. Click the OK button.

 

What’s Next

Using distribution lists, you’ll find it’s easy to communicate with groups of your friends with one message.

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Words to Know

  • Bcc: short for "blind carbon copy"; an email address in this field won’t be visible to any other recipients of the message.
  • Category: a group of contacts in your Yahoo! Address Book. Categories let you send the same email to a group of people and let you organize information by groups.
  • Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.
  • Distribution list: a group of contacts to whom you want to send the same email message.
  • Yahoo! Contacts: a listing of people and their email addresses associated with each AT&T Mail account; also known as Address Book.