Yahoo! Mail Classic Tutorials

Accessing Yahoo! Mail

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Using a Web Browser Using the Yahoo! Toolbar Using an Email Application Forwarding Mail

Forwarding Yahoo! Mail

With Yahoo! Mail Plus you can forward messages that come to your Yahoo! Mail Plus account to another email address—even another Yahoo! Mail address. If you enable email forwarding, you automatically receive email addressed to your Yahoo! Mail Plus account at your forwarding address.

The Yahoo! Mail server sends forwarded messages to another address. Email clients cannot access forwarded messages.

As long as your mail is being forwarded, new email won’t appear in your account on the Yahoo! Mail server. (Messages that came into your mailbox before you turned on email forwarding, however, do remain in your account.) This means that you can’t read new Yahoo! Mail with a web-based email client at http://mail.yahoo.com.

Note: The POP access and forwarding features can’t be used at the same time. While your mail is being forwarded to a different account, you won’t be able to access new mail with a POP mail client application from the Yahoo! Mail server.

 

Here’s How

  1. In a browser, go to the POP Access and Forwarding page. (Remind me how.)

  2. On the POP Access and Forwarding page, make sure that the radio button in front of the Forwarding option is selected.

    Select the Forwarding option and enter the forwarding email address.

  3. Enter the email address to which you want to forward your Yahoo! Mail.

  4. Click the Save button at the bottom of the page to save the changes to your Yahoo! Mail Plus account.

  5. You may be asked to verify the forwarding email address that you have entered. If so, follow the onscreen instructions for verification.

    Onscreen instructions for verifying a forwarding address.Enlarge

 

What’s Next

To turn mail forwarding off, return to the POP Access and Forwarding page, clear the email address field, and select the Web & POP Access option instead of the Forwarding option.


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