Yahoo! Mail Quick Start
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Receiving a Message
If you send email messages, you’ll likely receive email messages. This page shows the basics of reading incoming email messages. To learn more about receiving email messages, take a look at the Receiving and Responding to Email Messages tutorial.
Here’s How
Open Yahoo! Mail. (Remind me how.)
Click the
Inbox link
in the Folders list on the left side of the page.
Yahoo! Mail opens your Inbox on the right and displays a list of email messages—the ones you’ve received. By the way, you can open any mail folder and read the messages that it contains.
Click the subject of the message you want to read.
Yahoo! Mail opens the selected message. Now you can read it, reply to it, and even forward it to another friend.
What’s Next
The Receiving and Responding to Email Messages tutorial shows you how to reply to and forward email messages.
Words to Know
- Folder: a container that holds individual elements specific to the context; for example, email messages in Yahoo! Mail.
- Inbox: a folder where you receive incoming email.