yahoo email tips

An Introduction.

Here are some yahoo email tips, which u may or may not knew before.

Yahoo email tips.

1. Send html format:

With Yahoo! Mail, you can not only send plain text emails or messages containing attachments. You can also send richly formatted emails with custom fonts, inline images or graphical smileys, for example.

To send emails using rich formatting in Yahoo! Mail:

• Select Mail Options from the Yahoo! Mail toolbar.
• Make sure Mail is selected under Options on the left.
• Click General Preferences under Personalization.
• Under Composing E-mails, make sure Compose messages as color and graphics is selected.
• Click Save.

2. Send inline image:

Sure, you can send any image as an attachment easily in Yahoo! Mail. But wouldn't including the picture in your message directly be much more elegant?

Fortunately, Yahoo! Mail let's you do that, too, if the image is located at any Web server and if you use the rich text editor in Yahoo! Mail.

To insert an image inline with Yahoo! Mail:

• Locate the image on a Web site, or open it directly using its URL in Internet Explorer on Windows.
• Click on the image with the right mouse button.
• Select Copy from the context menu that comes up.
• Position the cursor where you want the image to show up in an email you are composing in Yahoo! Mail.
• Make sure you have enabled the Yahoo! Mail rich text editor.
• Hit Ctrl-V to paste the image.
• Continue editing (and adding more images).
• Finally, send your Yahoo! Mail message as usual.

3. Add nicknames to address book:

In Yahoo! Mail, you can address messages quickly using nicknames. Evidently, this only works for address book entries that contain a nickname.

To add a nickname to a contact in your Yahoo! Mail address book:

• Click the Addresses link in the Yahoo! Mail toolbar.
• Select Edit to the right of the contact to be associated with a nickname.
• Enter the desired nickname under Nickname:.
• Nicknames must be unique and cannot contain spaces or commas.
• Click Save Contact to save the new nickname.

4. Change yahoo email colour:

Yahoo! is Yahoo! and they are very good at looking like Yahoo!.

You can give your Yahoo! Mail a personal touch, however, by changing the interface color used for the left-hand navigation bar and other interface elements.

To change the Yahoo! Mail interface color:

• Select Mail Options from the Yahoo! Mail navigation bar.
• Follow the Colors link under Options:.
• Select a color scheme.
• Click the Save button.

5. Keyboard “check mail” shortcuts:

If you're waiting for an important (or even an amusing) email to arrive, you may find yourself clicking that Check Mail button in Yahoo! Mail on and on.

Relax. Take your hand off the mouse, and let it rest comfortably on the cozy keyboard. Assume a state of total coolness. Send your eyes on a journey through the room, or maybe even out of the window.

You can still check your mail.

You can probably do it just as frequently, and even faster. Yahoo! Mail provides a great keyboard shortcut for making it look whether new mail has come in.

To check your Yahoo! Mail account for new messages from the keyboard

• press Ctrl-Shift-C from anywhere in Yahoo! Mail, Calendar, Notepad or the address book.

This keyboard shortcut takes you to your Yahoo! Mail Inbox and refreshes it.

Note: Yahoo! Mail keyboard shortcuts may not work with older browsers.

6. Check the spelling:

Spelling mistakes in email mssages are not as embarassing as they are in your master's theses, but still it's better to avoid them when possible. Yahoo! Mail makes this possible by offering an online spell checker.

To check the spelling of a message in Yahoo! Mail:

• Select the Spell Check button in the top or bottom Yahoo! Mail toolbar.

If Yahoo! Mail detects a mistake, you can edit the offending word directly or get suggestions by selecting the button with the question mark directly following the entry field.

When your message is perfect, select Done and return to the message composition screen, of course retaining all the spell checker's changes.

7. Block a sender:

Yahoo! Mail can block all mail from up to 100 email addresses. All mail from these senders will be automatically deleted before you see it.

To add an email address to the list of blocked senders in Yahoo! Mail:

• Follow the Mail Options link in the top navigation bar.
• Select Block Addresses, which you can find under Management.
• Enter the email address you want to be blocked under Add Block.
• Select Add Block.
• Select Yes to set the block.

8. Check ur email by using ur email program:

For a yearly fee, Yahoo! provides POP access to your Yahoo! Mail account.

This means you can use your regular email program (Outlook Express, for example, or Eudora, or Netscape) to receive and send messages with your Yahoo address.

After you have signed up for Yahoo! Mail Plus, add a new email account to your email program with the following settings:

• POP3 Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com
• SMTP server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
• User name: Your My Yahoo! ID
• Password: Your My Yahoo! password

By default, you'll also receive all the spam that goes to the Bulk Mail folder in Yahoo! Mail, but you can prevent downloading this folder via POP.

If you don't want to or can't use the official POP access provided by Yahoo!, YPOPs! can be an alternative.

9. Insert graphical smileys:

Do you like to use emoticons (like : ) or ,-)) in your emails? Then you might also like Yahoo! Mail's graphical smileys. If you use Internet Explorer on Windows to access Yahoo! Mail, you can add small graphical icons to express your emotions.

To insert graphical smileys in Yahoo! Mail messages:

• Make sure you use the rich text editor in Yahoo! Mail.
• Click on the Insert Emoticon icon in the formatting toolbar.
• Click on the desired smiley to insert it into your message.

Be aware, though, that a recipient whose email client does not support HTML emails will not see the smiley.

10. Terminate yahoo mail account:

Do you Yahoo! but no longer want to? Whether you want to close your Yahoo! Mail account because you move on, because it is an old account you check only very rarely or for any other reason, it is probably easier done than pondered.

If you delete your Yahoo! Mail account, you also lose your Yahoo! GeoCities page, your My Yahoo! settings, your Hotjobs profile and other data in services belonging to the Yahoo! empire. If you are paying for any Yahoo! subscription services such as Yahoo! Mail Plus, it is probably best to cancel these first to avoid unexpected payments.

To close your Yahoo! Mail account:

• Visit the Terminating Your Yahoo! Account page.
• Type your password.
• Click Terminate this Account.

11. Create a mailing list:

The simplicity of sending the same message to more than one recipient is one of email's biggest assets. In Yahoo! Mail, you can make distributing emails even easier by creating a mailing list. To create a mailing list in Yahoo! Mail:

• Select Addresses from the top Yahoo! Mail navigation bar.
• Use the Add List button to create a new list.
• Give the list a useful name.
• You can use that name as a nickname when addressing messages.
• Add existing address book entries to the list using the Add> > button.
• Finally, save your new Yahoo! Mail list with the Save button.

And now that you have a mailing list in Yahoo! Mail, you can start using it!

12. Export address book:

The email clients and services we use change, but the people we communicate with remain mostly the same. That's why it is so important that you can take your address book with you.

In Yahoo! Mail, it's not only easy to manage your contacts, it's also easy to export them to a format that enjoys almost universal popularity and compatibility: CSV. Importing email addresses from CSV files in Outlook, Outlook Express or Gmail, for example, may not always work perfectly, but usually it does, and you get to retain all your email addresses.

Now, to export your Yahoo! Mail address book:

• Click the down arrow next to the Addresses tab in the Yahoo! Mail navigation bar.
• Select Import Contacts from the menu.
• Look for Yahoo! CSV under Export and click Export Now.
• Click Save when prompted what to do with the file download.
• Choose the location where you want to save the Yahoo.csv copy of your Yahoo! Mail address book.

13. View attachments instantly in yahoo:

Email attachments are great stuff, no doubt about that.

But having to download the attachment from Yahoo! Mail, starting an adequate application and then opening the downloaded file in that app can get a bit cumbersome for just taking a look.

Fortunately, Yahoo! Mail lets me view attachments instantly, without downloading anything, and without starting (or requiring) any application.

To view an attachment instantly and inline in Yahoo! Mail:

• Open the message containing the attachment in Yahoo! Mail.
• Click on View Attachment next to the attachment you want to take a look at.
• To return to the message containing the attachment (to reply, to scan the attachment for viruses,...) click Back to Original Message.
• To download the attached file directly, use the Download File link.

This secure method of viewing attachments inline in HTML supports an amazing number of formats: Word, Word Perfect, Excel, Access, dBase, PowerPoint and zipped files, among others.

14. Send webpages:

I'm not sure if what I'm going to tell you today is particularly useful, or whether it can be called a secret. Secrets are always a bit dirty, but this is nevertheless nice. What is it?

Yahoo! Mail has a rich text editor that lets you format your emails or, and that's the secret, forget about writing your own emails altogether and paste a web site instead — with all of its formatting. This can be fun.

To send web pages with Yahoo! Mail:

• Make sure you have enabled the rich text editor in Yahoo! Mail.
• Highlight the text you want to copy in Internet Explorer.
• Press Ctrl-C.
• Click in the body of a new message in Yahoo! Mail.
• Press Ctrl-V.

15. Print a message:

Usually, emails are not something you'd want to print. But there are exceptions, of course, and then Yahoo! Mail's ability to format a message for printing is handy. Yahoo! Mail does that better than some email clients.

To get a message fit to print in Yahoo! Mail:

• Open the message you want to print in Yahoo! Mail.
• Follow the Printable View link.

This opens a new browser window with the message formatted for printing (without ads!).

16. Find all unread messages:

With Yahoo! Mail's advanced search capabilities, you can look for unread messages in all your folders and display them together on one screen.

To find all unread messages in all your Yahoo! Mail folders:

• Select Search Mail from the Yahoo! Mail navigation bar.
• Follow the Advanced Search link.
• As the search criterion, specify: To, Cc, Bcc: contains.
• Type "." (without quotes) in the entry field that follows contains.
• Next, make sure Search is selected under Options:.
• Select Only Unread Messages from the drop-down menu.
• Select all your folders under Look in folders:.
• You may want to keep the Sent folder unchecked.
• Eventually, click Search.