Yahoo Email

Yahoo like MSN and Google offer free and paid email services.

The free email services are suitable for both personal and small business use, but for business use it is better to use them in conjunction with your own domain name, or alternatively use the business mail services.

The free email service is advertiser supported but you can upgrade to Mail Plus service for around $12/year to remove the ads.

The main access method for you email is web based using a browser of your choice (Internet explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome) but you can also access your email using desktop based email clients like outlook/outlook express using POP3, as well as by mobile phone.

We will be looking at all of these access methods.

Your Yahoo Email Account And Yahoo ID

To use Yahoo email you will first need a yahoo account.

 Just visit the Yahoo.com website or if you prefer you local Yahoo site. (uk.Yahoo.com -Uk Yahoo and de.Yahoo.com Germany yahoo).

You should find a link to create a new account next to the sign in button

If you haven't yet created a Yahoo account then see the creating a new yahoo email account and ID article.

You should note that with Yahoo your Yahoo id and Yahoo email address are the same.

Signing In To Your Account

Most people will access their Yahoo account using a web browser.

Yahoo provides a toolbar for the main browsers which makes it easier to access email as well as other Yahoo services.

If you don't want to install the toolbar then you can manually enter the mail url in the browser address bar or use a bookmark.

The main url is mail.yahoo.com but you will probably get redirected to a regional page depending on your location.

Sign in Seal

This is a very simple idea to guard against phishing scams (imitation websites).

You simply create a little bit of text or an image which links your physical computer to the Yahoo login page.

When you go to the Yahoo login page you should see your own seal displayed if you don't then the page isn't the real yahoo login page and you shouldn't login.

If you access yahoo from other devices then you need to go through the add seal process on each device.

Main Mail Features

• Access other mailboxes
• Email forwarding to another Email Address
• Additional Addresses
• Disposable Email Addresses
• Email Filtering
• Out of Office Notifications

Below You should find articles on many of the features and configuration options.

Yahoo Email - Articles and Tutorials

Yahoo Accounts and Email Addresses- creating Additional addresses and disposable addresses

Access External POP3 Mailboxes Using Yahoo Email - You can use your yahoo email account too access mailboxes of your other email accounts. This lets you use Yahoo to centralise email, and is also useful if your email provider doesn't support Webmail access

Connecting Microsoft Outlook Express to Yahoo email
Learn how to use Microsoft Outlook Express to access your Yahoo email mailbox.

How to cancel your yahoo email account
How to cancel your yahoo email account step by step guide.

How to Export Yahoo Contacts
How to export yahoo contacts so that you can import them to other programs like Outlook Express

Exporting Email Messages from Yahoo Email
A Guide to Exporting Email Messages from Yahoo Email

How to find an email address in yahoo
How do you find an email address in yahoo? This guide will show you how

How to send an email in yahoo
New to yahoo email? want to send a yahoo email- Here's how!

Set Up Email Address- How to set up email addresses for email clients and an explanation email forwarding and catch-all email addresses.