Yahoo! Email

Login Yahoo Email!

To enter or login to an email, you must have an ID and password.

a.      Open yahoo! email.

b.      Login to Yahoo! email based on your ID and password, then the first email screen is displayed as in the figure below.

1.     Sending an Email

To send an email, follow the steps below:

1.      Click New.

2.      Fill in To with the address of the recipient.

3.      Fill in Subject with the email subject.

4.      Type the content of the email.

5.      After finishing the content, click Send.

6.      If it is sent, a webpage showing that your email has been sent is displayed. Your email will be sent to the email address that you choose.

2.      Opening an Email

If you get an email, it will be saved in Inbox. Notice that the emails have different signs signalling whether they have been read or not, they contain  attachment or not, and so on.

Below are the steps of opening an email :

1.        Login to your email account. 

2.        Enter user id and password and click login. 

3.        Click Inbox. 

4.        To read an email, click the name of the email sender. The email content will be displayed.

5.        To read an email, you can also click the link text. To go back to the email list, click Inbox.

5.  Replying an Email

How to reply an email? The following are the steps to reply an email:

1. After reading the email, click Reply.
2. In text box To, fill in a name and email address.
3. Type the mail content.
4. Click send.

Using this facility, you can resend the email content you received. The email you received is located after your reply.

6.        Forwarding an Email

What if you want to send an email that you receive to others? Here are the steps.

a.      Open and read the email.

b.      Click Forward.

c.       Fill in an email address.

d.      Add the email content with you own words if necessary.

e.       Click send.

f.        If the email is sent, a webpage showing this information is displayed. 

7.        Using an Email to Send Files

By an email you can send a file like sending a letter with some enclosures. Information on the file is written in the email editor. The file itself is the attachment. The file may be a picture (.jpg, .gif), document (.doc), excel (.xls), compression (.zip) or program file (.exe). Depending on the size, there may be more than one file you can attach to an email. However, there is a certain total file size. The steps are below.

1. Click link text then write an email.
2. Fill in the recipient email address and email subject.
3. Type the email content
4. Below the content, find and click browse.
5. Find and then choose the file you want to attach to the email.
6. Click open.
7. Below the email you can see the file path and name attached to the email. If there is still any email to attach, click browse the second time.
8. Click send to send the email along with its attachment.

8.        Saving Attachment Files

An email with file attachment is given a special sign in the status column in the inbox. Below are the steps to open attachment file.

a.      Open an email that contains an attachment.     

b.      See below the text the email content, you will see file attached in the email.

c.       Right click the attachment file name.

d.      Click Save As Target.

e.       Decide in which folder the file is going to be saved. The attachment file is named according to the original name. You can change the file name if you want.

f.        Click save.

g.      Wait until the saving process is done.

h.      Click open to open the file, click open folder to open the folder where the file is saved or click close to close download complete dialog box.

i.        If there is more than one file attached, do the same thing on other files.