Yahoo! Address Book Tutorials

Working With Contact Information

Sending Email to One or More Contacts

While working in your Yahoo! Address Book, you can send an email to one contact or to several contacts. No need to switch to the Mail tab.

Here’s How

To send an email to one contact:

In your Contacts tab, find the contact you want to email, then click the email address.

Tip:Only the primary email address displays on the Contacts page, and this is the only address you can send to from within your Address Book.

The Compose page opens with the contact’s email address automatically listed in the To box.
Compose and send your message as usual.

To send an email to several contacts:

In the Contacts tab, check the box next to the name of each contact you want to email, then click the Send Mail button (don’t click the arrow to the right of the button when sending an email).

Notes:

Each contact you select must have an email address listed in their contact information.

You can send one email to contacts listed on the same page. If they span several pages, you must send multiple emails (one for each page of selected contacts). If you often email the same group of people, why not put them into a category (similar to a distribution list) so that you can send one email to the category?

The Compose Message page opens listing all of the selected contacts, and gives you an opportunity to remove contacts from this specific email.
If you like, uncheck the boxes next to contacts you decide not to include in the email, then click the Compose button.

The Compose page opens with the To box automatically listing the email address of each contact selected from the category.
Compose and send your message as usual.

You know you have a friend listed in your Address Book, but you can’t find the contact information. Yahoo!’s search tool can help you.

Category: a group of contacts in your Yahoo! Address Book. Categories let you send the same email to a group of people and let you organize information by groups.
Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.
Distribution list: a group of contacts to whom you want to send the same email message.

To create categories, see the Creating Groups of Contacts (Categories) tutorial.
To use categories, see the Working With Categories tutorial.

The Composing and Sending Email Messages gives you details on using the Compose page.