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Emailing: The Basics

It’s Emailing 101. Signing in and out. Composing. Sending. Receiving, replying, and forwarding...and deleting. Attachment help and Announcement help. Just click the links below to learn

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 Signing In and Out

• What's the most secure way to login?
• How do I sign in and sign out of my account?
• How do I switch between Yahoo! Mail accounts?

 Composing and Sending

• How do I send an email?
• Can I unsend an email?
• What's the largest email I can send?
• How do I put a link or URL into an email?
• Do I use categories to make groups and send to them?
• How do I start a new email?
• How do I address an email to someone?
• What do "Cc:" and "Bcc:" mean?
• Can I change how my name appears on my outgoing email?
• Can I send the same mail message to more than one person?
• How do I add or change a signature?
• How do I check the spelling in an email?
• What are these shortcut keys I keep hearing about?
• How do I switch from Plain Text to Rich Text (color, font, size and style choices), or back to Plain Text?
• How do I use the Rich Text toolbar to get type-style features like color and font choices?
• How do I change font sizes?
• I use plain text for my emails. Can I change that font?
• Are you an ISP or other mail server administrator having issues sending to Yahoo! Mail?
• If I send a message to someone, can I tell if they've received and read it?
• Can I change the time stamp on outgoing mail?
• Who can I send emails to?

 Receiving Mail

• Why was my email neither received nor bounced?
• How do I read an email?
• How do I skip to the next or previous email?
• How can I read my mail from another computer?
• What is the largest email I can receive?
• Can I read the HTML someone else puts in an email?
• How often are emails delivered into my mailbox?
• Someone sent me an email and I haven't received it. What happened?
• Why do I see the same text repeated twice in one email?
• What are headers, and what are my header viewing options?
• Can I adjust how quickly an email is marked as read?
• Can I read my emails in another language?
• I'm trying to read an email but it looks garbled. What happened?
• How do I print an email?
• Does Yahoo! Mail check for new emails?
• What’s the Reading Pane?
• How do I shrink or enlarge the Reading Pane?
• How do I close the Reading Pane? And how do I get it back?

 Replying

• How do I reply to an email?
• What do the backwards arrow, forward arrow, and flag icons mean?

 Sending Attachments

• How do I check an outgoing attachment for viruses?
• How do I remove an attachment?
• How do I add an attachment to an email?
• How do I forward an attachment?
• I'm having trouble attaching a file.
• Why are my attachments larger after I attach them?
• This attachment is taking long time to upload. How do I cancel it?

 Receiving Attachments

• How can I download ALL attachments?
• Can I view a slideshow of the photos I get from someone?
• Why doesn't an attachment open and appear correctly?
• How do I download an attachment?
• I received a message with an attachment. How can I view it or save it to my computer?
• How do I scan files attached to emails people send me?
• Why are emails with attachments routed to my Trash folder?

 Forwarding Mail

• How do I forward an email?
• How do I forward an attachment?
• What do the backwards arrow, forward arrow, and flag icons mean?

 Announcing Your Address or Vacation

• How do I tell everyone I have a Yahoo! Mail account?
• How do I create a vacation response?
• When I've set up an extra mail address, how do I tell friends and family about it?

 Deleting

• How do I sign in and sign out of my account?
• How do I send a message?
• How do I read a message?
• How do I add an attachment to a message?
• How do I download an attachment?

Tutorials

• Getting Started with Yahoo! Mail
• Composing & Sending Emails
• Receiving Email Messages
• Working with Attachments