Receiving and Responding to Email Messages
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Forwarding a Message
You can forward any email message to other people. When you forward a message, Yahoo! Mail displays the Compose page so that you can enter email addresses in the address boxes and add your own text to accompany the forwarded message.
Here’s How
Open the email message. (Remind me how.)
Click the Forward button.
The Compose page opens and automatically fills in the Subject box with the subject from the original message (preceded by "Fw", which means "forward") and the text box with the text from the original message.
Tip: You can change the subject and alter the message text if you like.
Type email addresses in the address boxes.
Type your own message in the text box if you like.
As with replies, you can alter the text of the original message. If you want others to know what text is from you and what belongs to the original message, use the formatting tools to highlight your text.
Click the Send button when you’re ready to send the message.
Yahoo! Mail displays a confirmation window letting your know that the message was forwarded to the email addresses listed in the address boxes. As described in Replying to a Message, the confirmation page lets you add email addresses to your Yahoo! Contacts and work with the original message.
The mail folder containing the original message shows a forwarded icon
to
the left of the sender’s name.
What’s Next
If
you’re a Yahoo! Mail Plus user,
you can automatically forward all of your incoming Yahoo! Mail to
another email account. Typically, both email accounts belong to
you. To learn more, take a look at the Opening Yahoo! Mail Your Way tutorial.
Words to Know
- Compose page: the page in Yahoo! Mail where you address, write, and send email messages.
- Email address: A contact’s address that identifies an electronic location where email can be sent. An email address includes the contact’s email name followed by the "@" followed by the contact’s email domain, such as "person@domain.com".
- Folder: a container that holds individual elements specific to the context; for example, email messages in Yahoo! Mail.
- Forward: (two uses in Yahoo! Mail) to send an email message that you receive on to someone else or to configure Yahoo! Mail to send all email messages that come into your Yahoo! Mail account to another email address.
- Yahoo! Mail Plus: a fee-based, advertisement-free version of Yahoo! Mail that provides additional online protection features and control.