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How to Block an Email Address in Yahoo Mail Account

Sometimes what happens is, you subscribe to a blog that is continuously sending you a spam message. The disadvantage of these spam messages is that these messages push your important emails down into the list and will take you much time to find them. If you want to block an email address on Yahoo Mail, then you are in the right place. This article is all about blocking a sender on your Yahoo mail account and Yahoo Basic Mail.

Like most of the popular email providers, Yahoo mail has provided an option to block email addresses from your account. Blocking spammy email address, you will not have to see any other messages from those senders ever again. All the messages that a blocked contact sends you will be deleted automatically before you even see it.

You can easily block someone by just typing their email address on the Blocked Address list from your settings page.

Blocking an email address prevents email from blocked addresses to reach your account. This helps to make your inbox look more simple and cleaner. Most importantly, you will never have to miss an important email on your inbox. With the same technique, you can filter unwanted newsletters in Yahoo Mail too. However, it’s better to unsubscribe newsletter in Yahoo Mail than blocking them.

Keep reading the article to learn how to block an email address in your ymail account.

Steps for Blocking a Person By Email Address in Yahoo Mail

Here is the basic way to block an email address on Yahoo Mail.

First, log in to your yahoo mail account: login.yahoo.com
Once you reach to your home page, click on the mail icon on your top right corner to open your mail dashboard.
Now, click on the gear icon beside Setting on the top right corner of your window. This will open up your setting bar, then click on More Settings on the list.
Now the setting page will be rendered to your screen. On the left sidebar of the setting page, you will see a list of settings, among those lists, click on Security and privacy settings.
On the Dashboard of your screen Security and privacy, a page will open which will have Blocked addresses on the list.
Now, on the Blocked addresses, click on + sign to add an email address to block.
You can manually add the list of unwanted email addresses in the Address field under Add an email address to block.
Now Click on the Save button to save the email address to your block list. From now on you won’t be bothered by this email address unless you unblock it.

There you go, this is how you block an email address on Yahoo Mail [Updated new version].

Steps to Block an Email Address from your Inbox List

Login to your yahoo mail account and go to your home page.
Now click on the mail tab on the top right corner of your homepage to open your Ymail dashboard.
On your left sidebar click on the Inbox tab.
A list of the email will appear on your screen, now click on the email of the person you want to block. This will open the message sent by that person.
On the top navigation bar right you will see three dots “icon for more option” besides Spam.
A drop-down menu containing different options to do with the particular mail will open on your screen once you press the button.
Click on Block Senders option from the drop-down menu. This will pop up a message to your screen to confirm the blocking.
Click on the Ok button to block the user on your ymail account.

You can select multiple messages from your inbox list and click on Block Senders from the more options drop-down menu on the top navigation bar.

Unblock Email Addresses in Ymail Account

To unblock email address:

Navigate to Security and privacy on your setting page.
Now, a list of block contacts or email addresses will render on your screen.
Beside every blocked contact list, there is a bin icon. You just need to click the bin icon to delete the email address or the contact from the block list.
Now, you will be receiving messages from this email.

Block an Email Address on Yahoo Basic Mail

If you are using Yahoo basic mail and want to block emails using the basic mail, here are the steps. Follow these simple steps and you will be able to block emails in no time.

First, log in to your Yahoo Bais Mail. And click on the Mail icon to go to your Mail page.
Now on your mail/inbox page, you have a drop-down menu/option in the navigation bar. It’s right next to your account name.
Now, click the drop-down menu and select settings to open up your settings page. Then click the Go button to load the page.
From the left sidebar of your settings page click on the Blocked Addresses tab to open the blocked addresses page.
Now, manually type in the email addresses that you don’t want to receive emails from in the text field.
Finally, click on the Add button to add the email addresses to your blocklists that will appear right below the text box.

With Yahoo mail, you can add as many emails as you want in your block list as yahoo provides up to 1000 users in your block list.

Unblock Emails on Yahoo Basic Mail

In case you changed your mind and want to receive emails from a block sender again or you blocked a wrong email account; the below steps will help you out to unblock emails on yahoo basic mail.

Similar to the steps described above, log into your yahoo basic mail and go to your settings page selecting Settings on the dropdown menu.
Now, select Blocked Addresses tab from the left sidebar of your settings page.
This will display a list of blocked email addresses.
Now, click the Bin icon right next to the email address that you want to unblock or that you want to remove from your blocked list.
As soon as you click the bin icon, the email address will be unblocked and you will start receiving emails from that particular email address.

There you go, now we came to the end of the article on how to block and unblock email addresses on Yahoo Mail using both the basic mail and the newer version of yahoo mail.

How to Block Senders Email on Yahoo App

Launch your Yahoo Mail Application on your mobile phone.
Now, select the email of the person you want to block on Yahoo.
Next, click on the More settings option on the bottom right corner of your screen.
Now, a new menu will pop up onto your screen containing different settings. Select Mark as spam.
These messages will not bother your inbox area anymore. all the messages sent by the particular sender now will automatically move to the spam folder. It is the process of filtering or setting up rules in Yahoo Mail.

I hope you liked this article on how to block and unblock email addresses on Yahoo Mail. if you have any queries regarding any topics on Yahoo Mail, feel free to add them in the comment section below. We will definitely look into it and provide you with the solutions. After all, we are here to help you guys.

How to Add Contacts to Yahoo Mail [Updated 2020]

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If you are new to Yahoo Mail, here is a thing, Yahoo is one of the best webmail platforms that offers so many services that we call Yahoo Services. And among them is Yahoo Contacts or address book. So, create a Yahoo mail account today and explore all of the services that Yahoo provides.

Your Yahoo address book or contact list is a way to organize all your personal and business contacts at a single place. You can add a person’s personal details like phone number, email address, locations, birthday and many more. Yahoo Contact keeps your address book organizes in such a way that you will not have to search your emails for your particular contacts.

You can even sync the contacts in your Yahoo Address book with your mobile device, with just a single click.

Adding Contact in Yahoo Mail is very easy you just need to follow some procedure and you are done. With the current new update, the procedure is quite different than what we used to follow previously. There are different ways you can add contacts in Yahoo Mail and today in this article we will be discussing all of them.

As of the update of Yahoo in 2019, the User Interface of Yahoo Contacts has changed thus, the procedure of adding or accessing Yahoo contacts has also been changed. So, let’s look at the new procedure to access Yahoo Contacts.

There are various ways to add contacts to your Ymail account. In this article, you will be learning about adding contacts to your Yahoo Mail using multiple techniques.

Manually Adding new Contacts to Yahoo Mail Contacts In New Yahoo Mail

If the steps that are explained below do not work for your check out the Yahoo basic mail’s step. follow the steps given right after the steps below.

First, log in to your Yahoo Mail Account: https://login.yahoo.com/
Then, tap on the Mail icon from your Yahoo Home page to get inside your inbox area.
Now, tap on the Contacts icon on the upper right corner of the page. It’s on the navigation bar of your right sidebar.
Now, you will see a +Add a new contact at the end or at the footer of your right sidebar. Click the button to open a form to add contacts in Yahoo Mail.
Now, fill-up the form with a person’s detail: Contact Name, Nickname, Email Phone Number, Address, Work Detail, and Personal details.
Finally, click the Save button to save the contacts on your Yahoo’s address book.

Manually Adding Contacts in Yahoo Address Book Using Yahoo Basic Mail

First, in order to use the Yahoo Basic mail, switch your current/new Yahoo Mail to basic mail. To do so, tap on the Settings gear icon on the upper right corner of your screen then click More Settings. Now, locate Switch Switch to basic Mail from the left sidebar of your settings page and click it to switch to Yahoo Basic Mail.

Now, follow the steps to add contacts to Yahoo Address book.

From the Yahoo Basic Mail, tap on the Contacts tab from the navigation bar of the inbox page. Taps are right below the search box of your landing page.
Now, tap on Add Contacts from the contacts page that is right below the search box of the address book.
A new form will appear on your screen containing information: Name and Contact Information.
Now fill-up the form enter your contacts detail like First name, Middle Name, Last name their email id, Nickname, and contact number. This is all you can add from the basic mail.
Now, click on the Save button to save your contact. Repeat the process to add more contacts manually.
If you want to edit the contacts detail, I would recommend to edit it from the new yahoo mail as you will get many more fields like adding birthdays, notes and many more.

Adding Contacts from Received Messages on Ymail

When you are reading an email, hover your mouse button over the sender’s name, this will open a dialogue box containing a copy address, new message, and search for messages for this particular person and Add to Contacts.

If you click on the Add to Contacts or use shortcut key Shift+A, you can edit the user detail before saving it to the new contact.

Or in the current version of Yahoo Mail, the user detail will open up in the right sidebar of your email page if you click the user’s email address or username.

Now, click on the +add to contacts link to open the form to edit the user detail before saving it to your Address Book.

Adding Contacts when Sending a Message

Adding contact when you send a message to contact is quite simple. For this, you need to login to your ymail account, go to Settings>Writing emails and enable or click the checkbox automatically add a new recipient to contact on When sending messages.

How to Import Contact List from Another Email Account to Ymail Account

If you have any other email account like Gmail, Outlook, AOL or Facebook, you can directly import contacts to Yahoo Mail Contacts from these accounts.

Here is an example:

In the following case, I am importing contacts from my Gmail Account to Ymail Account. You can import contacts from any other site following the same steps.

Click on the Mail anchor text on the top right corner of your homepage.
In the right navigation bar, click on the Contacts symbol.
All your contacts will open on your right sidebar.
Now click the three vertical dots on the upper right corner of your contacts.
Or
you can click the settings gear icon and tap on more settings to open the settings page.
from the settings page, tap on the Social accounts tab on the left sidebar.
Now, from the Social accounts page, select the webmail service from where you want to import your contact. Here in my case its Gmail. So, I click Import right next to Gmail.
Next, a new page will open containing a list of your Gmail accounts logged into your browser or a signing page will appear on that page.
In both the case, log in to the account from where you would like to import contacts from.
Once you are logged in, Gmail will ask for your permission to grant yahoo to access your Gmail to fetch your contacts from Gmail.
Tap on the Allow button to grant permission.
Now, the page will exit and Yahoo will automatically import all your contacts from Gmail to Yahoo Contacts.
To abort the fetching of your address book tap on Stop importing. This will cancel the importing of contacts.

Can you Import Contact List Using Yahoo Basic Mail

Currently, you don’t have an option to import contacts to your Yahoo Address Book using Yahoo Basic Mail.

Create New Contact List of your Choice on Ymail Account

There might be various reasons you want to separate a group of people to end the message. You might want to send a message using BCC or CC, or sending emails to your department colleague at once, or sending a message to your peer group, etc.

The following steps will guide you to create and use Yahoo mail Contact Lists or Distribution Lists.

First, log in to your Ymail account.
Click on the Contacts Symbol on your right navigation bar.
On the right sidebar, right below the Search contacts tap on the Lists tab.
If you don’t have any lists, your list will be empty. So to create one tap on + Create list.
Now, on the create list form, give your list a name.
Again to add contacts to the list, start typing their name in Add contacts text field, Yahoo will automatically suggest with the names you just typed.
select the person and that contact will be added to the list.
you can add as many contacts as you want in a contact list.
Now, hit the enter button and you are done, you just created a Contact list in Yahoo Contacts.

Now you need to add contacts to this list as it is empty at the moment to do so, follow the next steps.

Adding Contacts to your New Contact List on Yahoo Mail

Now, if you want to add more contacts in your Contact lists follow these simple steps.

After you logged in to your Yahoo Mail, click on the contacts icon on your upper right corner.
Now, tap on the Lists tab on the navigating bar of your right sidebar.
Select the Contact list with the help of the dropdown menu.
Now, click Edit right next to the dropdown menu.
Type in the contacts that you want to add in the list on the Add contacts field.
Hit the enter button and your contacts will be saved.

Removing Contacts from a List/Contact Group on Yahoo Mail

To delete contacts from your Contact List follow the following steps.

First login to your Yahoo Mail and tap on the Contacts icon from the navigation bar of your right sidebar.
Next, tap on the Lists tab to open your user-defined lists or group.
Now, using the drop-down on the List page on your right sidebar, select the list from where you want to remove the contact.
Next, click edit right next to the drop-down menu.
Now, look through the group list and click on the X mark right next to the contact that you want to remove from the group.
The contact will automatically be removed from your list.

Finding Contacts on Yahoo Mail Account

To search for your contact, there is a search box on your Contact page of Yahoo mail. Its also in the right sidebar of your Yahoo Mail page. You can type the name of the recipient and click Search Contact. It will render all the contact associated with that name on your contact list.

Finding Contacts on Yahoo Basic Mail

To search contacts using Yahoo’s Basic Mail, the first load up your inbox area. Then click on the Contacts tab from the navigation bar. Now type in your query in the contacts search box and click the search button to search your contacts in the Yahoo Address Book.

Edit Contact Detail on Ymail Account

Login to your Yahoo Mail account and tap on the Contacts icon on the navigation bar of your right sidebar.
Now, once all the contact details are listed on your right sidebar search for the contacts you want to edit the detail of.
You can make use of the search box on the contacts bar to search for the contacts.
Now, click the contacts to open the full view of the contact.
Now, on the user’s detail page, click on the three horizontal dots to open hidden menus.
Click on the Edit contact option from the hidden menu/drop-down menu.
There you go, you are provided with an edit for the user in the same right sidebar of your inbox page. edit the user’s detail and click the Save Button to save your change.

To add your contact, the minimum requirement is the first name and an email address.

Edit Contacts Detail in Yahoo Mail Basic

First login to your Yahoo basic mail.
Then from your inbox area, click on the Contacts tab to open your Yahoo Address Book.
Now, search for the contacts that you want to edit the detail of.
Click on the pencil icon on the contact to open the edit form.
Now, edit the user’s detail on the edit page that is opened on your screen
Finally, click on Save Button to save the change.

Note: Fields in Yahoo Basic Mail are limited. You don’t get to add personal details or organization detail with the basic version of yahoo mail. To get full functionality use the newer version of yahoo mail.

Delete Contact Detail on Ymail Account

To delete the Contacts from your Yahoo Mail, follow the steps:

Open the address book by clicking on the contacts icon from the right sidebar.
In the newer version of yahoo, you are not allowed to select multiple contacts to delete. So, you will manually have to select the contact and delete them.
now, click on a contact that you want to delete.
Click on the three horizontal dots once the contact details open on the sidebar.
Then click on the delete option from the dropdown menu.
Finally, confirm your deletion by click on the Delete button on the deleting pop-up dialogue box.

You cannot add a new contact with the same email address you just deleted.

Delete Contact Detail on Yahoo Basic Mail

Deleting contact using yahoo basic mail is quite simple. You just need to open the Yahoo Address Book. Then a list of all your contacts will appear on your screen. Now, click on the bin icon right next to the contact you want to delete. That’s all.

Restore or Permanently Delete Contacts on Ymail Account

To permanently remove or restore deleted contacts follow the steps.

Click on the Deleted Contacts from the left navigation bar.
Check the contacts you want to delete permanently or restore.
Click on Delete Permanently button to delete contacts permanently or Restore Button to restore the contact to the contact list.
Click on Done to complete the step.

How to Back up Contacts from Yahoo Mail Account

To back up your contact list, you need to export your contacts to your PC. Follow the following steps to back up your contacts.

First, open the Yahoo Address book by click on the contacts icon from the upper right corner of your inbox page.
Then, tap on the three horizontal dots from the contacts page to open up a hidden menu.
From the dropdown menu, tap on the Export option.
This will shortly export your contacts in CSV file format. You can open the downloaded file using Microsoft Excel.

Learn how to add a recovery email account on the ymail account so that if you are locked out or your ymail there is always a way in.

How to Automatically Forward AOL Emails to Yahoo Mail

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In the past, I have created the AOL mail account to communicate with people and for work purposes. Then suddenly, one day I want to try another new webmail service, which is yahoo. I kept using the yahoo mail and forgot that I still have an AOL mail account. Sometimes I miss the important message from the AOL because I forget to check the account. And I don’t want to get in such kind of situation so I came up with a solution – where I can access the emails of AOL into my yahoo mail. So today, I will show you how can you automatic forward AOL emails to yahoo mail on this article.

Forwarding the AOL email to your yahoo mail isn’t as complicated as you think. In fact, you can also save time while combing your both webmail account into a single account. So just follow the procedure steps by steps down below to make it happen.

How to automatic forward AOL Emails to Yahoo Mail?

There are few simple steps to automatic forward all your AOL incoming messages to yahoo mail. So let’s move into the steps down below

Open your browser and type mail.yahoo.com to open the official page of yahoo mail.
Now, login into the mail account using your yahoo email address and password to access your yahoo mail.
If you still haven’t created your yahoo mail account, then check out this article to register for yahoo.
After that, click on the “Settings” gear icon at the upper right corner of the yahoo mail home screen. Once you click that icon, it opens the drop-down menu, which shows different customization layout of the yahoo mail.
Now, select the “More Settings” option to open the settings page of yahoo mail where you can customize your yahoo mail account with lots of settings.
Now, choose the “Mailboxes” from the upper right side of the yahoo settings page. After that, it opens the mailbox management from where you can manage or add your other mail accounts.
Now, click on the “Add mailbox”, which is just under the Mailbox List option. Once you click that button, it opens the different webmail accounts on the right side where you can select any webmail account to receive their emails to your yahoo mail.
You want to receive your AOL emails to your yahoo mail, so select the AOL mail account from the list of different webmail accounts.
Now, enter your AOL email address into the text field to receive all AOL messages to your yahoo mail. After that, click on the “Next” button for the further process.

Note: If you are signed into the different AOL account, then, first of all, sign out from all the accounts before adding the email address.
Once you click the next button, it pop-up a new AOL sign-in page or window where yahoo asks to access all the AOL function. So click on the “Agree” button to give yahoo access over the AOL mail account. (It might take couples of minutes for yahoo to access the AOL mail function)
Note: If you do not see any AOL sign-in page into a new window, then check your browser for pop-up blockers or simply click on the “Relaunch window” button.
Provide the name and description for the AOL account, which helps you to remember why you add your AOL mail inside your yahoo mail. After that, click on the “Done” button to end the process.
Note: Yahoo will synchronize your AOL account, which might take a couple of minutes. So be patient until the whole synchronization completes.

There you go; you have successfully added your AOL account and also forward all your incoming AOL messages into your yahoo mail. Besides that, you can also remove the AOL account from your yahoo mail if you don’t want to give access to your AOL account to yahoo mail. So how can you do that?

How to remove the AOL account from the yahoo mail?

There is an option in yahoo where you can remove the AOL mail account from the yahoo mail. In other words, you can permanently remove all the messages and data of AOL from yahoo mail. So let’s take a little look down below.

Note: User cannot revert the process once you remove the AOL mail account from your yahoo mail.

Once again, open your yahoo mail account and sign in with your yahoo email address and password to access your yahoo mail account.
Now, click on the “Settings” gear icon from the upper right corner of the yahoo mail home page.
From the settings page, select the “More settings” from the drop-down menu, which opens the settings page of yahoo mail.
Now, select the “Mailboxes” option from all those settings options, which is at the upper right side of the settings page.
After that, choose your AOL mail account from the Mailbox list to remove the account. Just click on the AOL mail account, which slides out the option where you can remove the account.
Now, scroll down to the end and click on “Remove mailbox” button which pop-up the dialog box showing a message “Are you sure you want to remove the account?”
Finally, click on “Remove mailbox” to remove your AOL mail account form the yahoo mail.

This way, you can easily remove your AOL mail account from the yahoo mail to prevent from receiving the messages from AOL mail.

Conclusion

You have learned the easiest way to forward AOL email to yahoo mail and also how to remove the AOL mail from the above steps, which I have explained in this article. Now you can decide whether you want to receive all AOL messages to your yahoo mail or only want to access your yahoo mail by removing the AOL account.

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How to Get Rid of Popping Ads on Yahoo?

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In this article today, I will guide you on how to get rid of popping ads on yahoo. Not only in Yahoo but every site and URL. You can use software by downloading, or you can use an extension to block pop up ads. Are you irritated with Pop-Up Ads?

Usually, when we use any web-browser, we get a lot of Pop-Up Ads which irritates and ruin our mind. And the most irritating part, sometimes irritation turns into anger, while you are in a hurry and you need to send urgent text, message or send attachment and browser throws Ads which doesn’t only disturb you but also makes your device hang. To avoid such a case, you can get rid of popping ads on the Yahoo homepage by using block Ads extensions.

Using Block Ads extensions will block all ads and pop up messages that will display in your web browser. Now you can do your work without any irritation or frustration. So, let’s see how to get rid of Pop-Up ads.

Get Rid of Pop up Ads.

The web browser doesn’t have any blocking ads features, but you can use an extension to block those Popping ads. You can use extensions in any web browser like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer.

How to install Ads blocker extensions on Google Chrome

Google chrome is the most used browser with advance features and smoothness. Using extension doesn’t block Yahoo ads only but also all Ads you will get in your Google Chrome. You can also manually set up and block ads on a particular URL. So, make sure www.yahoo.com is not in the list “Allowed sites.”

Open Google Chrome from your device.
Now in the search field of Google Chrome, search ads blocker.
After that, you will see the search result on your screen. Now scroll down and choose any ads Blocker you want to use.
Click on the link and open the Extension.
Now on the right side of the extension name, you will see Add to Chrome.
Click on the Add to Chrome. After that, you will see the pop-up message, click on the Add extension.
Now wait for few minutes, it will automatically install in your device, and you will get a notification.
You on the navigation bar, you will see Ads blocker icon-only, if it was successfully installed.

How to install Ads blocker extensions on Mozilla Firefox?

You can download extensions, or you can also directedly insert them in your Mozilla by installing an inside the browser. After you download and install the extension you can add Block manually and set up to block Ads on Yahoo install the extension and make sure www.yahoo.com is not in the list, the URL in the list will not block ads its “Allowed sites.”

Open Mozilla Firefox in your device you are using.
In the search field of Mozilla, search Ad-block plus or any extensions you want to add.
Now, click on the link and open the extension you want to use.
Now, under Ads blocker name, you will see the Download Now button. Click on the Download Now button.
Now you will see “learn more about Firefox,” click on the Download anyway link just below learn about Firefox.
Now this will download the extension in your device, open download extension from Download file.
Now you will see the setup of the extension box, after that click on the Ads blocker and install button bottom right of the box.
Now you will see a successful notification after you install it. Now go to Mozilla Firefox you will see the extension in the navigation bar.

You can also Add ads block extension following steps.

Open Mozilla Firefox and search for the Ads blocker extension.
Now click on the green arrow icon from the extension.
After that, click on Add to Firefox of the extension.
Install the extension, click on the Install, and then click on the Restart Now if error.
Now after successful Install, you will be notified and can see an extension in the navigation bar of Mozilla Firefox.

How to install Ads blocker extensions on Internet Explorer?

In Internet Explorer, you can use simple Ad-block or Ad-block IE to block popping ads. After installing extension and software, you can set it manually or leave it default. The default will block all the ads in your Internet Explorer, but you can allow other URLs to get ads by mentioning URL in “Allowed sites.” Make sure www.yahoo.com is not listed.

Internet Explorer: Simple AdBlock (Extension)

Open Internet Explorer and navigate to AdBlock.
Choose Adblocker and click on the Download Now.
After that, click on the Download Installer.
Now, after you download, click on the Run button after that accept the terms of the license agreement.
Now follow the prompts and install the add-on.
After you install, click on the Finish and then click on the Enable.
After you install and enable the extension, you can see an extension you added in the navigation bar of the Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer: AdBlock IE (Software)

Open Internet Explorer and navigate to AdBlock IE.
Choose AdBlock IE and click on the Download AdBlock IE and then click on the Run button.
After that, click on the Yes if prompted.
Now click on the Next button and install the software. Go through terms and accept the agreement.
After that, click on the Enable button to add an extension.
You can find software in setting, the software you are using to block ads.

Conclusion

Now you can stop/block pop up ads and messages while you are using your Yahoo Mail in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Internet Explorer. You can also manually select the URL that you want to see ads and insert URL in the “Allowed Sites” list. I hope you can now block Pop-Up Ads and messages. If you have any questions regarding this article, then you can leave us a comment in the comment section below, and you can visit our official website for more Yahoo guide.

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How to Automatically Forward Outlook/Hotmail Messages to Yahoo Mail

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We are living in such a generation where most of the works involve email. Your office work, college assignment, job application, and even every small daily work are shared with the help of email. It became a part of our life as we will find ourselves in trouble if an email suddenly stops working correctly. And nobody likes to get in trouble, so there is a solution where you can forward all your one account email to your other webmail account if you cannot access one of your webmail account messages. And today, I will take an example of Outlook and yahoo to give you a clear idea on how you can forward messages from Outlook to yahoo mail.

Today in this article, I will show you two different methods of forwarding the messages from Outlook to yahoo mail: normal method and Rule method. So follow the procedure steps by steps down below to forward your outlook messages to yahoo mail.

Forward all mail from Outlook to yahoo mail

You can forward all your outlook incoming emails or messages to your yahoo mail with the following steps down below.

Open the browser and type outlook.com, which opens the official page of Outlook.
Now login with your Microsoft email ID and password in order to open your outlook mail account.
Select on the “Settings” gear icon option, which is at the top upper right corner of the inbox page. After that, it opens the drop-down menu where you can customize your outlook mail page.
Now, click on the “View all Outlook settings” option, which is at the bottom part of the drop-down menu. Once you click that option, it pops up the outlook settings dialog box where you can organize your all outlook mail account.
Select the “Email” option from the left side of the Outlook settings page. After that, it slides out the mail layout or settings where you can customize your outlook emails.
Now search for the “Forwarding” option, and once you find it select that option in order to forward your outlook email or messages to yahoo mail.
Note: For security, reason Outlook can ask you to verify your account before proceeding further. Verification can be done using an Alternate Email account or SMS verification method.
Select the “Enable forwarding” in the checkbox, which helps to let you automatic forward all your outlook messages to yahoo mail. Note: If you do not want to forward your outlook messages then, clear the Enable forwarding in the checkbox.
Now, enter your yahoo account email address in the text field.
In case you want to keep a copy of your outlook messages in your outlook account then, select the “Keep a copy of forwarded messages” in the checkbox.
Note: If you do not mark the keep a copy of forwarded messages in the checkbox then, you cannot find any forwarded mail in your outlook account, neither in your deleted folder. It’s because Outlook will forward all your original incoming messages to your yahoo mail directly.
Finally, click on the “Save” button that will save your managed settings.

Now, this way, you can forward messages from the Outlook to your yahoo mail with these simple steps.

And, if you want to forward your specific email or messages to your yahoo mail or to someone else, then you can also do that in simple steps. The steps will be slightly different than the above one because we are going to use the Rule method to forward the emails from Outlook.

How to forward Specific Emails from Outlook (Rule method)

First of all, you need to set up a rule in Outlook to handle the incoming email message, which is based on multiple criteria. So let’s get started without any further delay.

1. Open your Outlook mail on any browser.
2. Sign in with your Microsoft email ID and password to open your outlook mail.
3. Now, select the “Settings” gear icon from the top upper right corner of the outlook mail page. This will opens the drop-down menu with shows lots of customization options for the page.
4. Select the “View all Outlook settings” option from the drop-down menu to open the setting page of the outlook mail.
5. Once you select that option, it opens the settings dialog box. Now, click on the “Email” option from the upper left side of the dialog box.
6. Now, select the “Rule” option to create a new rule for the message forwarding process.
7. Now, click on the “Add new rule” option, and it opens the form where you can perform the rule method to forward messages.
8. Give a name for the new rule and choose a suitable name that is easy to remember.
9. Now, select the “Add a condition,” which shows the list of options in a drop-down arrow. You can choose the following option if you want to forward:
  All emails with attachment then select the “Has attachment” option.
  All emails from a specific sender then choose the “From” option.
  Only your emails, which is marked as important, then select the “Importance” option.
10. Now, select the “Add an action” and then choose the format from the drop-down arrow if you want to forward:
  Your messages as an email then choose the “Forward to” option.
  Your complete original email with any modified attachment then choose the “Forward as attachment” option.
11. Next, enter the destination email address in the text field after you choose one of these options, which I have mentioned in step 10.
  Note: You can add multiple email addresses to receive specific emails from the Outlook.
12. Finally, click on the “Save” button to forward a specific email.

If you follow all the steps which I have explained above, then you can easily forward the specific messages or email to your yahoo or any other webmail accounts for your outlook mail.

Conclusion

Your email account is essential in your daily life for your day to day work. So if you have two webmail accounts and want to receive all your messages to only one account, in other words, if you only want to use yahoo account for your work, then you can forward your outlook messages to your yahoo mail. So you will not miss any incoming messages in Outlook.

If this article was helpful then, you can also check out our other yahoo related article on Ymail Login, which can be useful, and it might also solve your yahoo related queries which you might be searching for.

How To Secure Your Yahoo Mail Account

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Do you know most of the security breaches happen via Email. Have you ever evaluated your Yahoo mail Account security? In this article, we will discuss some techniques to secure your Yahoo mail account.

According to Statista, In 2017, 269 billion emails were sent and received, half of those related to business. Hence, it is essential to Secure Your mail account, especially if that Email is the Email you use for business purposes. Hackers can hack the account and can compromise confidential business data.

These days all types of business communications are done via emails as email communication is mobile, reliable, and economical. Confidential data like contract information, shareholders agreement, etc. may reside on Email. If such information gets hacked, it can cause severe damage to the company. Even hacking of personal data can cause serious damage to the individual. A good example can be the “Hillary Clinton email controversy.”

Data exposure via email communication has now turned into a problem of greater magnitude. A single wrong-click can expose top-secret company information, make public, private financial statements, and expose sensitive negotiations. Hence in the current world, it is a must to secure your mail Account.

Different methods to Secure Yahoo Mail Account

Email Service companies have also taken the steps forward from their side to the mail account. Email Services company like yahoo have introduced a feature called two-step Authentication to secure yahoo mail account. All the Emails are SSL/HTTPS encrypted. Despite the effort from the Email Service company, the Email still gets hacked, mostly due to the user’s fault. Hence every user should follow the steps mentioned below to make their email account safe.

Note: We will take reference to Yahoo Mail Account as an example Email. The steps are the same for other Email Accounts too.

Set up Strong Yahoo Password

If your password is easy to guess and doesn’t contain a mixture of special character, number, Upper Case then there is a chance that hacker can you account using Brute force attack or Dictionary attack. A dictionary attack is a hacking technique which uses simple file of common words to hit and trial password. A brute force attack is an advanced form of Dictionary attack. Instead of just a common word, the Brute force attack hit and trial all possible combination of alpha-numeric combinations. Hence always keep you Password Strong. Your password should be a mixture of Special character, number, and Upper Case. Yahoo has an excellent article on how to choose a strong password.

Enable Two Factor Verification (2FA)

Two Factor Verification is the best method to protect your Email. After Enabling 2FA, access is granted to the account only after the user can verify two forms of password or two sources of evidence of their account. Two sources of evidence are usually your email password and verification code you will receive via SMS or a call.

In Yahoo, you can enable Two Factor Verification within few clicks. Goto Account security Page and Toggle on Two-step verification. More detail about Two Factor Verification is provided HERE.

Beware of Phishing Emails

Phishing is a hacking technique used to steal user login credentials, credit card numbers, etc. In such an attack, hacker masquerades as a trusted party and tries to trick the user into clicking into the malicious link, which leads to malware or ransomware program intended to steal your private data. Although Yahoo tried to filter Spam Email from their side, Phishing email still exists. Users shouldn’t open or click the suspicious link. Never give account credentials to anybody.

Update your Account Recovery Information

Account Recovery Information is contact information through which you can recover your email credential in case the user forgets the password. Make sure that the Account Recovery Information data you enter is of trusted person and try to update the Account Recovery Information at least on quarterly intervals.

Updating/Adding Account Recovery Information on Yahoo mail is straightforward. Go to Account Security Page and click on “Add the recovery email address.” For the detailed steps, follow THIS LINK.

Use a secure email service.

Yahoo Users don’t need to worry about secure email service. Yahoo website provides Secure Socket Layers (SSL) encryption for secure data transfer via Email.

Secure Socket Layers (SSL) in general term, is a standard for creating an encrypted link between a web server and a browser to prevent the network from being tapped

Easy way to know if the website uses SSL is; if the web address starts with “https” it uses SSL.

Try not to keep similar passwords on every Email accounts

Hackers know that usually, people use similar passwords and security questions on all of their accounts for convenience. Once your one Account gets compromised, all other accounts whose password is similar also are under the thread. We suggest you go to all of your additional accounts, including bank accounts, email accounts, social media accounts, dealer accounts such as Amazon, media accounts like Netflix, etc. and change the passwords. Furthermore, Change the security questions and answers for any account where they were required.

If you are like me who keeps forgetting the password, then there is an awesome app called LASTPASS. It remembers all your passwords for you.

Review of Account History Regularly

It’s a good practice to review your Account History at least every quarter. It helps to detect any potential intruders or hackers.

To review Account History of Yahoo, go to Manage Accounts Page andSelect Recent Activity from Account info section. It displays information like session browser/OS, times, IP address, and location. If any suspicious activity occurred on your account, then this is the first thing you should do.

Review Your Forwarding Settings

If you have multiple accounts, email forwarding helps to manage it easily. But it can be an entry point for hackers to spy your Email too. Just a few minutes of access into your Email, and someone can set up email forwarding into their account. So monthly checking of the Email forwarder list is essential to stay protected.

On yahoo, you can do it very quickly. Go to the Accounts section of Settings Page. Click the Yahoo entry with your email address, scroll down, and you’ll view the Access your Yahoo Mail elsewhere field. Make assured there’s no data present. If data is present, then it means your email is forwarded to that email. Make a note of it, and then turn to forward off and change your password.

Encryption In Yahoo Mail

In the past, yahoo mail doesn’t provide automatic email encryption, but the user had to opt for the encryption feature. But things changed in 2014 when Yahoo declared auto email encryption.’ Now Yahoo is fully Encrypted and safe whether you use it from the web, mobile app, SMTP, IMAP, or POP.

Nowadays, almost all famous Email service companies have Email Encryption.

Recognize a Hacked Yahoo Mail account

It may sound odd, but it’s not very easy to find if your account is hacked or not. Because hacker always tries to remain dormant and unrecognized. If you have the suspicion that your Email is compromised, then follow the steps mentioned below to find if your account is hacked or not.

Signs of a hacked email account

You’re not receiving some or any emails.
Your Yahoo Mail is sending spam to your contacts.
You see user logins from odd locations on your activity review page.
Your account info like email forwarder, 2FA verification, etc. was changed without your knowledge.

Preventive steps if your Yahoo Mail Gets Hacked

1. Change your password immediately

Usually, Hackers won’t change hacked account passwords to remain unrecognized. If that is the case, then immediately change your password to prevent further damage.

To change the password of yahoo mail, click the “Forgot Password” link from the login page.

Things to remember:

Make sure your new password is long, unique, and complex passwords.
If 2FA(two-factor authentication) is off, turn it on. This gives an extra layer of protection to your email account.

2. Check your settings

After you change your password, the next thing to do is check if the hacker changed something on your account settings.

Some major things to look at are:

Email filters, Forwarders, Blocked addresses, Reply-to Address, etc.
Check if the hacker made any changes to the Email signature.

Note: You can send an alert message to all your contacts list informing that your Email was hacked and ignore any suspicious message from you until you inform that issue Ais resolved.

3. Scan your computer and other devices for malware

After you verify your setting, the next thing to do is find the source of the cause. To find the cause and eliminate it, scan your computer for possible malware. There might be malware on the PC you use.

Note: If you found malware, change the email password and re-check account settings again. There is the chance that the malware system again sends the credential to the hacker.

4. Implement preventive measures to prevent future hacking

After your account got hacked, you must adopt preventive measures to prevent future hacking. Avoid suspicious emails or links. Regularly scan your PC for malware. Always using private and secure networks only.

Future of Email Security

Nowadays, the trending topic for every aspect of technology is Artificial Intelligence. The email Service company is also trying to implement Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to make its security system more reliable and secure.

One famous AI Technology for Email Security is Micro’s Writing Style DNA. AI learns the user’s writing styles based on his past writing. If AI finds any variation on a writing style, it alerts the System about it.

Artificial Intelligence can also be used to detect spam emails, malicious files, and links too.

Merge Multiple Yahoo Email Accounts

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Most of us have more than one Yahoo Mail accounts that we use for our personal and business purpose, respectively. And juggling several email inbox to check the mails can be a hassle. Luckily Yahoo Mail offers you a solution that lets you combine multiple email accounts into one single inbox. This way, if you have multiple Yahoo accounts, you can merge them into one and send and view emails of that account without having to open any other second Yahoo Mail account. So, in this article, we will be looking into how you can manage and merge multiple Yahoo Email accounts.

What is an Account Switcher in Yahoo Mail

Account switcher in Yahoo Mail is a feature that allows a user to manage multiple webmail accounts with one email account. This way, you don’t have to log out of one account and log back in every time you want to switch between different Yahoo Accounts or any other webmail.

How Many Accounts Can you Add in Yahoo Mail

Yahoo allows you to add up to 50 accounts in your Yahoo Mail that you can toggle between.

How to Merge Multiple Yahoo Email Accounts

The steps mentioned in this article are performed using the Google Chrome browser. If you use any other browser, steps will be the same and will work in other desktop browsers. To merge multiple yahoo Mail account, you, of course, need more than one Yahoo Mail account. So, if you don’t have one, create a Yahoo Mail Account today. After you merge multiple yahoo mail, it takes some time to sync. Then, you will have your Name on the top section of the left sidebar of your Mailbox from where you can switch between your Yahoo Mail Account. So, let’s set up and add multiple Yahoo accounts in one.

How to Create a Second Yahoo Email Account

First, let’s create an extra Yahoo Email Id.

First, go to Yahoo sign in page.
Then tap on Create an Account button to sign up with Yahoo Mail.
Now, fill-up the signup form and verify your phone number.
Once you are verified, you will be redirected to your Mailbox.

If you want to learn more about creating an account, here is the link: Create a new Yahoo Mail account.

Steps to Add and Merge Multiple Yahoo Email Accounts

Sign in to your Primary Email Account where you want to add your secondary email account.
From your Yahoo Homepage, click on the Mail icon on the upper right corner. This will open your Mailbox area.
Again, from the mailbox area, click on the Settings gear icon from the upper right corner. This will open a drop-down menu that contains some useful settings. However, you will not find the option to add secondary Yahoo Email from this settings drop-down menu.
So, to get into the settings to add multiple Yahoo Accounts, click on the More Settings option from the list of settings in the settings drop-down menu.
Now from the left sidebar of your settings page, click on the Mailboxes tab to open the Mailbox management page. This is where you will add any webmail to access the webmail from any other email service provider.
Now, click on the Add mailbox button from the Mailbox management page and then select the Yahoo option from the list of webmail from the Select email provider page.
To add your secondary Yahoo Email address to your primary, enter your secondary email address to the email box on the Add mailbox page.
Now, click the Next button from the add mailbox page. Now, you will require to log in to your secondary email address. For this, yahoo will launch a new pop-up window containing a firm to log into your secondary email address. If the windows do not pops-up, click the Relaunch window button.
Enter your secondary email credentials on the pop-up window to validate your email address. And then press the sign in button. After your account is verified, you will have to give your email address a label.
So, go back to your settings page you will see your Mailbox has been added notification on your window. Now, give your Mailbox a name and a description and hit the Done Button to complete.
Finally, your secondary Yahoo email is linked to your primary email address. It will take some time to sync, so let it do its job.
Once the syncing process completes, go back to your inbox area, or the mail area. Click Back to Inbox option on the top of your left sidebar.
Now, take a look at your sidebar, you will see you secondary Yahoo Mail syncing. After the syncing process completes, click on the email address to get to your secondary email address. You will not have to log out and re-login to your account every time you move between your email address.

There you go, this is how you can merge multiple Yahoo Email accounts into one. Repeat the same process to add in other email address to your Yahoo Mail account. You can add up to 50 accounts to your yahoo mail. If you are trying to forward emails from Yahoo Mail, here is a link to automatically forward emails from Yahoo Mail.

Unlink Multiple Yahoo Account

Login to your Yahoo Mail Account, here is the link: https://login.yahoo.com/
Now, add your login credentials and go to yahoo mailbox by clicking on the Mail icon from the homepage.
Now, click on settings gear icon from the upper right corner of your screen and then select More settings option from the drop-down menu.
From the settings page, click on the Mailboxes tab from the left sidebar.
Now, from the Mailbox management page, tap on the email address from the Mailbox list that you want to remove.
Once you select the email address, scroll down the edit panel of that email address on the right screen of your settings page.
Now, under Reauthorize mailbox, tap on Remove mailbox button.
Finally, confirm your action by clicking Remove mailbox from the confirmation dialogue box.
Your Mailbox will be removed.

Conclusion

In this article, I have tried to highlight the methods to link or merge multiple Yahoo Email Accounts in one account. And also, the steps to remove the merged email account. Just follow the steps mentioned above, and you will be able to link more than one email address in your Yahoo Mail account.

How to Send a Large File From Yahoo Mail

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Yahoo Email service has been there for a long time. And emails you can do a lot of things with your Yahoo Mail, one of which is attaching files, images to your emails. With Yahoo Webmail Service, you get 1TB of storage that is enough for millions and millions of text emails with attachments. However, it limits the size of the message and the attachment sent via their service. This is enough for text documents, a few images, and other small files. But what happens when you have to send a large file from Yahoo Mail?

Thankfully there are some ways you can follow to send a large file through your Yahoo Mail. Let’s have a closer look at how to send a large file from Yahoo Mail.

Yahoo Mail Attachment Size Limit

Similar to most of the popular email service providers, like Gmail, Yahoo Allows users to send an email of up to 25 MB in size. The size also counts the size of the email message. So, if you are trying to send a file that is exactly of 25MB, you won’t be able to send the file. If that’s the case, you can reduce the size of the message or the attachment, which we will discuss in our next subtopics.

Different Ways to Send a Large File From Yahoo Mail

Reducing Size of a Message, You Send

As I have mentioned earlier, the maximum size of the email that Yahoo offers to send at a time is 25 MB. So, if the message you are about to send exceeds the limit a little bit, you can reduce the size of your message by following ways:

Compressing the File Before Sending
Send Separate Mails if you have multiple files
Rather than attaching files send a downloadable link

Now, let’s describe them in detail

Compressing the File Before Sending

There are various desktop and online tools that you can use to compress your files or folders into one.

The most common Desktop tool to compress your file is WinZip and WinRAR. The tool compresses one-to-many files into a zip file that has relatively less size than uncompressed files. Then send your Yahoo email attaching the compressed file. Sending this kind of data, however, requires the receiver to have the same tool to unzip the files.

The most common online tools to compress files are youcompress, pdfcompressor, wecompress, Tinyjped, and so on. These tools require you to upload your files to their web browser and will provide you a compressed folder. You need to download these compressed files and attach them to your Yahoo email. The limitation with the online tool is that you will not get to compress any type of file in one place. Some compressor offers at most two types of files to compress. Meaning, you cannot compress your pdf file on a webpage that compresses images.

Send Separate Mails if you have Multiple Files

Now let’s suppose your compressed files to its extent. However, the file size still exceeds 25MB. You might be thinking about what should you do. This section of the article is for you.

What you can do is. If you have multiple files that you need to send, you can break those files down into small chunks and compress them separately in chunks. Now, the next step is to send those emails messages separately.

For example, I have 30 images with size 1MB each. The total size of the attachment is 50 MB. I used TinyJPEG to compress my images; however, the tool only compressed the image by 25% that led to 37.5MB in total. I can’t send this file, so I again compressed these files using WinRAR, which compressed to further 5%. However, still, I am left with 35.6MB, which I can’t send.

So, the solution is to break down the compressed images into two half and send them in two separate Yahoo emails. this way I can send large file From Yahoo Mail

Send a Downloadable Link

Most of the time, the photographers won’t use compressor tools to compress their images as it will degrade the quality of the picture by a certain amount. And if you have a single file that exceeds the file size that yahoo has limited, then the steps mentioned above won’t work for you. The only option for you is to upload the file somewhere else and sent the shareable link to the receiver adding the link to your email. Now, this is where our next topic comes in. How to link Dropbox to Yahoo, how to use google drive to send large files via Yahoo Mail.

How to Link Dropbox to Yahoo Mail

Yahoo allows you to attach a dropbox file from their message compose dialogue box. If you want to try the dropbox out, you can create a free account that allows you to upload files up to 2GB. Dropbox is, by far, the best cloud storage I have ever used. If you want to go for the paid version, go with the Dropbox Plus version. This is what I am currently using, which costs $9.99 per month, which gives you 2 TB of storage.

Let’s learn how to attach dropbox to Yahoo Mail.

When you finish writing an email from your Yahoo compose page, click on the paperclip icon from the toolbar right beside the send button.
Now, select Share files from the Dropbox option from the drop-down menu to link your Yahoo Mail with your dropbox.
Now, the dropbox window will appear on your screen. Now click on Connect dropbox.
Now, you will have to sign in to your dropbox. Enter your credentials and press the sign-in button.
Now, select the file you want to send, your dropbox link will automatically be attached to your Yahoo Mail email.

Use Google Drive to Send a Lage File From Yahoo Mail

To get access to google drive, you need to have a Gmail account first. And probably you have one. If not, create one because Google provides 15 GB of Free cloud storage to its users where you can store any file, images, or documents. You can generate the shareable link of the file that is greater than 25 MB and send the shareable link on your Yahoo Email. Or you can link your google drive to your Yahoo Mail.

Go to your Message compose page and click the paper clip icon. then click on Google Drive from the list to link it to your Yahoo Mail. Now, select your file and send it to friends.

Other Cloud Storage

There are other cloud storage tools that you can use to send larger files MediaFire and WeTransfer. With MediaFire, you can share up to 10 GB files at once. Just mention to your receiver that you are sending the file via MediaFire to your recipient while sending an email via Yahoo Mail. Likewise, WeTransfer offers to send a file up to 2GB.

Conclusion

There you go, these are the different ways that you can choose to send a large file from Yahoo Mail, or let’s say tricks. I hope you liked the article if you have any queries regarding any topics related to sending emails, leave it on the comment section below. We will definitely look into it and reply you back as soon as possible.

FAQ

How to Insert Image in Yahoo Mail?

There are two ways you can insert image in Yahoo Mail; one is via the attachment, click on the little paper clip icon on the bottom toolbar of your compose page. Then select the image from your PC drive. Or, you can drag and drop the image into the message box of your Yahoo Mail.

What is the largest email attachment allowed in yahoo mail?

Its 25 MB, combining both the message and the attachment. So, if your attachment is exactly 25 MB, try compressing your file into a zip file; this will save a little space.

How to send large files in yahoo mail using google drive?

First, upload your file to google drive. Then, generate a shareable link from the drive. Copy the link and past it to your Yahoo Email body. This will allow the recipient to download the file you uploaded.

How to Resize or Compress Photo Attachment

If you don’t care if the image quality degrades by a small amount, you can try to use an online tool like tinypng, or tinyjpeg or other photo compressors that reduce the size of your image by resizing your image.

How to send a zip file in yahoo?

First, compress your file using WinRAR or WinZip. Then attach your zip file by clicking the paper icon on the toolbar of your email compose page.

How to send large video files through Yahoo Mail?

The only way to send a large video file via Yahoo Mail is by using google drive, or dropbox, or any other cloud storage that offers file transfer or a shareable link.

How to attach File (Photo/Video/Files) in Yahoo Mail

To attach your files like images, documents, short videos, gif, or any other documents, click on the paper clip icon on the toolbar of the email composing page and select the file from your local drive.

How many attachments can I send via Yahoo Mail?

You can send as many attachments as you want with Yahoo Mail, but the total size of the email with the attachment should not exceed 25 MB. If you’re going to send a large number of files that exceed the Yahoo quota, then you can send the attachment dividing it into chunks of size lesser than 24 MB.

How to Use Yahoo Answers | Everything you Need to Know

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Yahoo Answers, a question and answer website, is one of the services that Yahoo! provides. It is a platform where users can ask questions or answer the questions asked by other users. It was launched on June 28^th, 2005, but was available to public users only after a year, i.e., May 15^th, 2006.

When you post a question or answer a question in Yahoo Answers, you need to follow Yahoo Answer Community Guidelines. For example, you cannot violate the law; you cannot misbehave with other users; you should not be mean or obscene, and so on. And in order to ask questions or answer questions on Yahoo Answers, you need to be over 13 years of age.

Read the Community Guidelines before using Yahoo’s Question and Answer Platform.

You will need a Yahoo Mail account to get access to Yahoo Answers. If you don’t have one, create your Yahoo Mail account today to use Yahoo Answers. If you have a Yahoo Mail Account, you will have to sign in first.

Login to Yahoo Answers

Open your browser and go to Yahoo! Answers.
If you haven’t logged into Yahoo Answers, Click on the Sign-in button at the upper right corner of your screen to log into Yahoo Mail Account.
Now enter your email address on the Sign-in form and click the Next
Pro Tip: You can use your username as well. If your email address is [email protected], you can exclude the @yahoo.com part and enter only the username abx95 and click the Next button.
Now, enter your password on the next page of the sign-in form and click the Sign in
If you have set up an account key, you will get a notification on your mobile to validate your login process. This is the safest way to login too.
If you have enabled Two-step verification, then you will have to add the code that yahoo sends to your mobile phone once you click on Sign in Button.
If your email address and password are verified, you will be redirected to Yahoo! Answers home page.
Now you can ask questions, answer questions, edit or delete your questions in Yahoo! Answers.

If you want to look up for questions, there is a list of Categories where you can find questions related to Categories. There are currently 26 categories in Yahoo! Answers.

Yahoo! Answers Categories: Arts & Humanities, Beauty & Style, Business & Finance, Cars & Transportation, Computers & Internet, Consumer Electronics, Dining Out, Education & Reference, Entertainment & Music, Environment, Family & Relationships, Food & Drink, Games & Recreation, Health, Home & Garden, Local Businesses, News & Events, Pets, Politics & Government, Pregnancy & Parenting, Science & Mathematics, Social Science, Society & Culture, Sports, Travel, and Yahoo Products.

How to Use or Participate in Yahoo’s Questions and Answers Platform

Yahoo! Questions and Answers is an excellent platform for researchers, learners, and students like us who like to explore and learn more about various topics. And Yahoo Answers is a place where you will find topics or questions on almost any topic. If you don’t see any question related to your subject of research, you can ask a question in Yahoo Answer. Likewise, you can also give or post answers to a question to a topic you know better.

Now, let’s learn about how to ask questions and answer a question in Ymail Answers.

How to Ask Questions in Yahoo Answers

Open the Yahoo! Answers page and login with your Yahoo Account.
To ask a question on Yahoo! Answers, click on the + Ask button right next to your profile icon on the upper right corner of your screen. This will take you to a new page where you can enter your queries.
Now, type in your question in the text field, “What’s your question.” You have a limitation in character count here. You can only enter 140 characters long sentences as your question. However, to describe your question, you can add 1500 more characters in question detail text box. This will help people understand your questions better. To do so, add your question detail right below your question text field.
Likewise, you can also add images to your questions. “A picture speaks a thousand words!” To add an image, click on the + Photo icon, and your picture size should be less than 5 MB.
Finally, click on the Submit button to post your question in Yahoo Answers after you finish writing your questions.

If someone answers your question, you will get a notification in your Yahoo Mail.

How to Edit or Delete Question in Yahoo! Answers

Sign in to your Yahoo Answer with your Yahoo Mail Account. Yahoo! Answers
Click on the Profile Icon on the left sidebar of the Yahoo Answer dashboard. Your profile icon is right below Notifications.
Now Tap on My Questions Tab from your Profile and select the question you want to edit or delete.
Clicking on the question will open the question and answers page in a new window.
Now click on the Edit option from the bottom right corner of the question panel. This will open on the Edit drop-down menu.
To delete the question, simply click on the Delete Question option from the list. You need to confirm your deletion, so click on the Delete button on Confirm Delete dialogue box to delete your question.[Note: If you don’t see the Delete Question option on the edit dropdown menu, it’s probably because someone has answered your question. It’s not possible to delete a question once a user has answered your question. However, you have an option to edit your question.
To edit your question, click on Update question from the edit drop-down list and update your question in the text field.
Finally, click the Submit Button to update your question.

How to Make your Question Anonymous

Anonymous means a person who is not identified by name. Making a Question, Anonymous means that you don’t want to display your name in the question due to some reason. Let’s learn how to make a question anonymous.

Open up your favorite browser and Sign in to your Yahoo Answers with your Yahoo Mail Account. Yahoo! Answers
Click on the Profile Icon that is on the left sidebar of the Yahoo Answer dashboard. Your profile icon is right below Notifications.
Now Tap on My Questions Tab from your Profile and select the question you want to make anonymous.
Clicking on the question will open the question and answers page in a new window.
Now click on the Edit option from the bottom right corner of the question panel. This will open on the Edit drop-down menu.
Select the option Make Anonymous from the list to hide your identity on the question.
Now look on the question, your username is replaced by Anonymous, and a spectacles icon replaces your profile picture.

How to Answer a Question in Yahoo Answers

I like to call a person “Contributor” who answers questions in Yahoo Answers. It’s because he is spending his valuable time, resource, and effort answering questions. If you want to answer someone’s question, there are a number of categories to choose from. Choose a category which you think you can answer, which you have experience with. Okay, let’s start answering questions in Yahoo Answers.

Open your browser and log in to Yahoo Answers.
On the left side panel, you have categories that you can choose to view questions related to the category you select. Now, choose a category, here I am selecting Pets as my category.
There will be many sub-categories on a category you select. To go to the specific topics, select Sub-category from the Category Panel. Here I am choosing fish as I am an expert in fish keeping.
On the Discover Tab of the Q&A page, you will see a list of questions that are already answered. You can answer this question by click on the question. This will open the question on a new window.
Click on the Answer button to open the text box to answer. You can add images to your answer and a supporting answer or the source or your answer
Click on the Submit button to submit your answer.
To look up for unanswered questions, click on the Answer tab. Scroll down the questions and look for a question that has Be the first one to answer the text box.
Click the textbox and add your answers, images, and source or your answer.
Click on the Submit button once you finish writing answers.

Answering a question where there are not any answers might get you the Best Answer batch. The best answer is a batch that is nominated by the person who asks a question. The more Best Answer batch, you get, the more chance of getting pinned as Top Contributors on Yahoo Answers.

How to Edit or Delete Answers in Yahoo Answers

Login to your Yahoo Answer with your Yahoo Mail Account. Yahoo! Answers
Click on the Profile Icon on the left sidebar of the Yahoo Answer dashboard. Your profile icon is right below Notifications.
Now Tap on My Answers Tab from your Profile and select the answer you want to edit or delete.
Scroll down to the answer section and select the Edit option from your answer panel.
Now select Delete Answer option from the drop-down menu. And again, click the Delete button from the Confirm Delete dialogue box to delete your answer.
Next, to edit your answer, click on the Edit Answer option from the Edit drop-down menu.
From the edit dialogue box, edit your answer and add the source of the answer.
Then click the Submit Button to save change your answer.

How to Make your Answer Anonymous

Open up your favorite browser and Sign in to your Yahoo Answer with your Yahoo Mail Account. Yahoo! Answers
Click on the Profile Icon that is on the left sidebar of the Yahoo Answer dashboard. Your profile icon is right below Notifications.
Now Tap on My Answers Tab from your Profile and select the answer you want to make anonymous.
Now scroll down to the answers and click on the Edit option from the bottom right corner of your answer panel. This will open on the Edit drop-down menu.
Select the option Make Anonymous from the list to hide your identity on the answer.
Now look up the answer, your username is replaced by Anonymous, and a spectacles icon replaces your profile picture.

How to search for questions and answers in Yahoo Answers

To search a Questions or Answer related to your search term, type your search term in the search bar, and hit the enter bottom. This will display a list of all question and answer that has the keyword you searched for. Scroll down and look for relevant questions. And click on the question to explore more about the question or answer the question.

How to Follow a Question in Yahoo Answers

Get into the category from the left sidebar or search a question from the search box. Open a question about your subject of interest. However, in the time you opened the question, you don’t see answers on it. Now you would like to follow the question so that whenever a person comments on the question, you too get the notification of the answer. Here is how you can follow a question in Yahoo Answers.

Login to your Yahoo Answers and go to the question you want to follow.
On the question tab, click o the Save icon that is right next to Answer Button.
Done, you have successfully followed a question in yahoo answers.

How to Report a question or an answer in Yahoo Answers

Imagine a situation, you asked a question, and someone is abusing you on the comments. Or you see a comment that looks like spam. What do you do next? You Report the answer. Likewise, you can report a question, as well.

To report an answer in Yahoo Answers, Click on the Flag icon on the bottom right corner of the answer panel. Likewise, to report a question, click on the flag icon on the same corner of the question panel.
Now on the Report Abuse pop up box, select what type of violating did the question or the answer made. You can enter additional details in the Enter additional details here text box.
Now click on the Submit button to report a question or an answer In Yahoo Answers.

Choose and rate the Best Answer in Yahoo Answers

Choosing and awarding the best answer in Yahoo Answers lets the community know that the answer was helpful. You can pick an answer to the question you posted and pin it as the best answer. This way, the answer is always on the top of the list of answers to your question. You will have the ability to pick the best answer one hour after posting a question. Now, here is how you can choose and rate the best answer in Yahoo Answers.

Sign in to Yahoo Answers,
Click your username on the left sidebar of your window right below the Notifications.
Click on the My Questions Tab to view the questions you asked.
Now, select a Question.
Scroll down to the answers; you will see Award Best Answer on each comment.
Click on the Award Best Answer to the answer, which was helpful.
Now rate the best answer.
Finally, click on the Submit Button to award an answer the best answer.

How to Increase Your Level in Yahoo Answers

Yahoo answers is a fun website where you get to ask questions and answer other queries. In question and answer platform, you gain levels too. More you level up more the questions you can answer and ask a question. Your level depends on the points, which are known as Yahoo answer points. As you answer a question, you gain 2 points while you will lose 5 points when you ask a question. However, when your answer gets a tag of the Best answer, you will earn 10 points.

Here are some tips to increase your level in Yahoo Answer:

Make an effort and give Yahoo Answers a bit of your time. Logging in gives you 1 point a day.
Give answers to the question that is asked. You will get 2 points when you answer a question.
Answer the question you know most about. This will help you explain your answer better.
Likewise, give short answers and be polite; if your answer comes up as the best answer, you will earn 10 points.
Ask little or no question; this way, you will not lose your points.
Answer questions using proper grammar and spellings.

How To Access Your Yahoo Mails With Your Email Client Using IMAP and POP

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With POP and IMAP protocol and configuration, the user doesn’t need to open Yahoo Website to read/send emails. You can read, send and manage your emails via email clients like Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or if you are mac user, then iOS Mail App. Like other famous email vendors like Google, Hotmail; Yahoo has also provided POP, IMAP, and SMTP protocol too. You can access your yahoo mails With your email client using yahoo IMAP and POP.

Working of IMAP and POP

In this article, we will be learning how to access your Yahoo mails with your email client like Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, etc. using IMAP and POP.

Fun fact: In earlier days, Yahoo used to charge for POP and IMAP services. But since Gmail gave these services for free, yahoo was forced to give it for free too.

What are POP and IMAP?

Both POP and IMAP are the protocol that email client uses to access the emails from the email server.

POP (Post Office Protocol) is an older protocol that works by contacting your email server and downloading all of your new messages from it to your local application. The major downfall of POP is that once a local machine downloads the email, the emails get deleted from the email server. Hence, if you try to access those emails from the other devices, it won’t be accessible. A lot of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) give you email accounts that use POP.

Some important highlights of POP protocols are:

Only downloads email from the server, downloaded emails doesn’t stay on server afterward.
Email server doesn’t save the records of emails sent from the email client.
Deleting, moving, and modification of emails on the email client sare not reflected on the email server

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a newer and more widely used protocol than POP. IMAP is also protocol to access emails from the email server, but when emails client user IMAP to read the email, the mails don’t get downloaded or gets stored in your email client. Instead, you’re reading it from the email service. As a result, you can check your email from different devices, anywhere in the world: your phone, a computer, a friend’s computer.

Some important highlights of IMAP protocols are:

Email clients only read the emails from the email server. Emails stay on the server.
Many emails clients can access the same Email server using IMAP.
The email server saves the records of emails sent from the email client.
Emails that are deleted, moved, or modified in the email client are deleted, moved, or modified on the server too.

Yahoo Mail IMAP Settings

To access Yahoo Mail seamlessly from your email program via IMAP settings, open the email client program’s new-account wizard and enter these settings:

Yahoo Mail IMAP server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
Username: Your Yahoo Mail address (include @yahoo.com too)
Yahoo password for that email
IMAP port: 993
IMAP TLS/SSL: yes

[App password should be used instead of Yahoo mail password if two-step verification is on your yahoo mail]

Note: The settings are always the same no matter what email clients you use.

Yahoo Mail POP Settings

To access Yahoo Mail seamlessly from your email program via POP settings, open the email client program’s new-account wizard and enter these settings:

Yahoo Mail POP server: pop.mail.yahoo.com

The other setting is exactly the same as for yahoo IMAP settings.

POP port: 993 [This is the default email receiving port used by device]
POP TLS/SSL: yes [Nowadays SSL/TLS is very important if you want to keep your email safe.]
Your Yahoo Mail address aka username (include @yahoo.com too)
Your Yahoo Mail password or app password

[App password should be used instead of Yahoo mail password if two-step verification is on your yahoo mail]

Note: The settings are always the same no matter what email clients you use.

Set up an IMAP/POP email account in Apple Mail

Mentioned below are the steps to set up an IMAP/POP yahoo email account in Apple Mail.

Steps:

From the top navigation menu, go to File → Add Account.
Add Account window will pop up. Enter the Full Name, Yahoo Email Address, and your yahoo Password and click Continue.
Incoming Mail Server window section will appear, where you enter the IMAP/POP configuration.
Fill the Account Type, Mail Server, Username, and password as per what protocol you want to set up and click Continue. As mentioned above, set up the configure settings for IMAP and POP of Yahoo Mail.
Outgoing Mail Server section will appear. Enter all the fields as mentioned above and click Continue.
Now you will be redirected to the Account Summary section. It displays a summary of the configuration you performed. Verify it and if anything is the wrong click, Go Back button and fix it or else click Create button.

Finally, you have completed Apple Mail IMAP/POP configuration for yahoo mail. For more details, you can visit their official page.

Set up an IMAP/POP email account in Outlook

Setting up an IMAP/POP yahoo email account in Outlook is very simple. We have used Outlook 2010, but the steps are very similar to other versions too.

Steps:

Select File → Add Account from the top navigation.
“Auto Account Setup” window will appear, select the Email Account checkbox. It is selected by default.
Enter the value for fields: Your Name, E-mail Address, Password, and Retype Password.
Now select “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” checkbox and click Next button.
Choose the Server window will popup, check the first option – Internet E-mail, and click the Next button.
Internet E-mail Settings window will popup. This is the section where you enter the IMAP/POP configuration.
As mentioned above, fill all the required input fields for yahoo IMAP/POP configuration settings. If you want to set up further Click More Settings and do the further setup.
Click the Next button. Congratulations, we have configured your email account with the IMAP/POP protocol for incoming emails.

For more details, you can visit the Microsoft Outlook official page.

Either IMAP or POP protocol is essential to receive emails from your email clients. With these protocols, you can access your email messages from anywhere, via as many different devices as you want. After you set up the configuration for yahoo IMAP or POP, you can access your yahoo mail from your favorite and convenient email client without even opening the yahoo website.