A | B | C | D | E | F |
G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N |
O | P | Q | R | S | T |
U | V | W | XYZ
A
- Address Book: a listing of people and their email addresses associated with each Yahoo! Mail account.
B
- Bcc: short for "blind carbon copy"; an email address in this field won’t be visible to any other recipients of the message.
C
- 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.
- CC: short for "carbon copy"; use this field to add secondary recipients to an email message.
- Compose: to enter the text of an email message.
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.
D
- Distribution list: a group of contacts to whom you want to send the same email message. Yahoo! Mail Classic uses categories as distribution lists.
- Domain: a set of Internet addresses, such as for a web site or email. On the Web, a domain is the part after "www." such as "my-domain.com".
- Download: to transfer a file from a remote computer to your computer.
E
- 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".
- Email domain: a set of Internet addresses, such as for a web site or email. In email addresses, a domain is the part after the "@", such as "my-domain.com".
L
- List: a feature in earlier versions of Address Book that let you send an email message to a set of contacts. Now you can send email to a category instead of a list.
M
- Mailing list: a group of contacts to whom you want to send the same email message. In Yahoo! Mail, a category includes mailing list capability.
- Messenger ID: the Yahoo! ID a person uses to sign in and use Yahoo! Messenger.
N
- Nickname: a shortcut to a person's email address.
P
- PIM: a personal information management tool, such as your Yahoo! Address book, the Palm Pilot, and Microsoft Outlook.
S
- Synchronize: to cause items in multiple locations to match exactly.
U
- URL: Universal Resource Locator; specifies the location of a file or web page, such as http://my.yahoo.com.
XYZ
- Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to all Yahoo! networks.
- Yahoo! Messenger: a web-based tool that lets you communicate using your voice, text, or other means with one or more people over the Internet in real time (instantly); text-based messages are sometimes referred to as "instant messenger" or "IM".