Using Folders to Organize Your Email
| Working With Folders | Creating Folders | Moving Messages | Changing the Message View | Renaming and Deleting Folders |
Moving Messages Between Folders
You can move messages between personal folders, as well as between your Inbox folder and your personal folders.
There are some restrictions on moving messages into and out of the permanent folders.
Drafts—You
can’t move messages into or out of the Drafts folder. To save a
message that you’re composing in this folder, click the Save
as a Draft button. To remove a message from the Drafts
folder, either send it or delete it.
Sent—You
can transfer messages out of the Sent folder, but you can’t transfer
messages into this folder. Once you move a message out of the Sent
folder, you can’t move it back in, unless you send it again.
Spam—The
only way to move a message into the Spam folder is to mark it as spam. 
You can move messages out of the Spam
folder into any of your personal folders or Inbox.
Trash—To
move a message into the Trash folder, delete the message. If you
delete a message by mistake, you can move it from the Trash folder
into another folder. To permanently remove all messages in the Trash
folder, empty the trash.
Here’s How
Open the folder containing the message or messages that you want to move.
Check the box to the left of one or more messages.
Click the Move button, then select a folder from the menu.
Yahoo! Mail moves the messages to the selected folder.
What’s Next: Sorting Incoming Mail Into Folders
You can use filters to have Yahoo! Mail automatically deliver incoming email messages into different personal folders instead of your Inbox. This is like an automatic move! Take a look at the Sorting Incoming Email Into Folders tutorial to learn how.
Words to Know
- Permanent folder: a mail folder that is automatically created in a Yahoo! Mail account and can’t be deleted.
- Personal folder: a mail folder that you create and use to organize your email messages.
- Spam: unsolicited email on the Internet; also called "junk mail".
- Spam folder: a permanent folder containing messages that you or Spamguard consider spam.