Getting Started With Yahoo! Mail
| Introducing Yahoo! Mail Classic | Reading an Email Message | Replying to a Message | Sending a Message | Personalizing Your Welcome Page |
Introducing Yahoo! Mail Classic
Yahoo! Mail is an email application that allows you to send and receive email messages over the Internet. You might have another email account at work or school, but Yahoo! Mail allows you to send and receive email from any computer with Internet access anywhere in the world. In addition, your Yahoo! Mail account comes with Yahoo! Calendar, Yahoo! Notepad, and Yahoo! Address Book.
It’s easy to begin using Yahoo! Mail Classic—just open a web browser and get started!
Here’s How
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Make sure that the computer you are using is connected to the Internet.
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Launch a web browser.
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Enter the following address in the browser’s address field and press Enter:
http://mail.yahoo.comThe Yahoo! Mail sign in page appears in the browser.
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Enter your Yahoo! ID and password, then click the Sign In button.
Tip: If you don’t have a Yahoo! ID, you can sign up for one right on the Mail sign in page.
The Yahoo! Mail Classic Welcome page appears in the browser.
Note: To learn more about an area in the Yahoo! Mail Classic Welcome page, hold the cursor over the area in the figure below.
Tip: Avoid seeing ads in Yahoo! Mail by signing up for Yahoo! Mail Plus!
What’s Next: Related Tutorials
To learn about all of the Yahoo! Mail Classic features, take a look at these tutorials:
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Composing and Sending Email Messages—write and address messages, attach files, and send email.
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Receiving Email Messages—read and reply to messages and forward them to others.
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Working With Drafts and Sent Messages—save unsent email in the Draft folder and save sent messages to the Sent folder.
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Accessing Yahoo! Mail—access Yahoo! Mail in a variety of ways, including using the Yahoo! Toolbar and even another email application.
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Managing Your Mailbox—organize email messages into different folders.
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Searching for Messages—find your email messages, no matter where you’ve filed them.
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Sorting Incoming Mail Into Folders—automatically sort incoming email messages into different folders.
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Protecting Yourself From Spam—protect yourself from unwanted email, often called spam.
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Using SpamGuard—use SpamGuard to automatically send spam to your Bulk folder.
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Using Disposable Addresses—create alternate, disposable email addresses to use whenever you don’t want to give out your real Yahoo! Mail address. This is a Yahoo! Mail Plus only feature.
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Accessing (Popping) Non-Yahoo! Mail—use Yahoo! Mail to retrieve messages from your other email accounts.
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Working Safely With Email Attachments—safely receive and send email attachments.
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Getting Started With the Yahoo! Address Book—learn how to use your Yahoo! Address Book.
Words to Know
- Attachment: a separate file included as part of an email message; for example, a multimedia or document file.
- Disposable email address: a customized email address that you create using AddressGuard to protect your regular Yahoo! Mail Plus address.
- Folder: a container that holds individual elements specific to the context; for example, email messages in Yahoo! Mail.
- Spam: unsolicited email on the Internet; also called "junk mail".
- Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to the Yahoo! network.
- Yahoo! Mail Plus: a fee-based, advertisement-free version of Yahoo! Mail that provides additional online protection features and control.