Receiving and Responding to Email Messages
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Filtering Your Folder View
When you open a mail folder that contains lots of email messages, finding the one you want can sometimes seem daunting. Yahoo! Mail helps you find your message in a number of ways. You can:
Sort the messages in the folder by column name. Find out more in the Using Folders to Organize Your Email tutorial.
Search for messages that meet specific criteria. The Searching Your Email Messages tutorial shows you how.
Filter your folder view so that it shows all messages (the default), flagged messages only, or unread messages only. This task shows you how.
- All messages (the default)
- Only messages from your contacts
- Only unread messages
- Only flagged messages
Here’s How
Open a mail folder by clicking the folder name on the left side of the Mail page.
Above the list of messages, click a View option to filter the messages.
When you first open a mail folder, Yahoo! Mail uses the All filter.
Select the From Contacts filter to view only messages from your contacts.
Now the mailbox lists only messages (both read and unread) from your contacts.
Select the Unread filter to view unread messages only.
Select the Flagged filter to view flagged messages only.
What’s Next: Flagging a Message
Flagging a message is pretty simple. You can flag one or more
messages in a mail folder by clicking the dot (
)
in the Flagged column. To flag a message while reading it, click
the gray flag (
).
A red flag (
)
displays after either of these actions to show that the message
is flagged.
Words to Know
- Connection: a person you spend significant time online with and with whom you want to share personal information. Connections have privileged access to each others’ profiles.
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.