Yahoo! Mail Quick Start

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! ID, which you can get the first time you access Yahoo! 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.

Display in new window

• What’s Next
• Help Topics

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.

 

Take Me to Yahoo! Mail

Next:
Getting to Yahoo! Mail

What’s Next: Learn More

• Customizing Yahoo! Mail—personalize 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 Organize Your Email—organize 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.

• Using Mobile Text Messaging—send text messages with your friends’ SMS devices using Yahoo! Mail.

• 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. This is a Yahoo! Mail Plus only feature.

• Choosing Your Best Email Option—choose the best option for accessing your mail.

• Using Other Email Accounts With Yahoo! Mail—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.