Composing and Sending Email Messages
| Introducing the Compose Page | Addressing Your Message | Writing Your Message | Personalizing Your Message | Attaching Files | Sending Your Message |
Sending Your Message
The order in which you compose your email message is your choice. You can address it, write your message, and then attach files; attach files, write your message, and then address it; or mix it up. Just be sure to have an email address in the To box before you click the Send button.
Tips:
If you aren’t ready to send your email message, save it
as a draft in
the Drafts folder by clicking the Save as a Draft button.
You can open the message at another time, complete it, and then
send it when you’re ready. To learn more, read the Working With Drafts and Sent Messages tutorial.
By the way, Yahoo! Mail automatically saves a draft of
your message periodically after you start typing. To be sure you
save a draft of your entire message, it’s always a good idea to
click the Save as a Draft button.
Here’s How
When you’ve finished composing your message, click the Send button.
Yahoo! Mail sends your message to the addresses listed in the address boxes and displays a confirmation page.
What’s Next: Adding Your Recipients to Your Yahoo! Contacts
The Message Sent confirmation shows you which recipient addresses are already in your Yahoo! Contacts and gives you an opportunity to add the ones that aren’t.
Uncheck the recipients you don’t want to add to your Yahoo! Contacts, then click the Add to contacts button.
In the Compose page, follow the instructions to add the contact information to your Yahoo! Contacts.
Words to Know
- Compose page: the page in Yahoo! Mail where you address, write, and send email messages.
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.
- Draft: an unfinished version of an email message that you save in the Drafts folder to complete and send at a later time.