How To send an email in Yahoo

1. From the Yahoo mail welcome screen or from any of the mail screens where you can see Compose and Compose Text Msg buttons displayed. select either

Compose- This allows you to compose a message that can include special fonts, emoticons, colours etc-- Normally you select this.

Compose Text Msg- For text messages only without any special pictures,icons etc

2. Enter an email address in the To field (mandatory) and if necessary the Cc and Bcc fields. If you want to send to more than one person you need to separate the addresses with commas. e.g. jdoe1@abc.com,jdoe2@abc.com,jdoe3@abc.com. There is maximum limit of 100. If you regularly send emails to multiple users then consider using a mailing list. Instead of typing in the email addresses you can also use nicknames or select them from the address book.

If any of you contacts are in the address book you can save yourself the typing and select them from the address book. To do this  place the mouse pointer over the To, Cc or Bcc label ( the pointer becomes a hand) and click. You can need to check the appropriate To, Cc, Bcc box next to the contact name or names.

3. You should be able to spell check the message and save it in the drafts folder. When I tried it deleted my message. So before you try these options please test them!

4. Click send to send  the message. You should receive a confirmation screen saying the message was sent.

5.If you get an error message (see screen shot below) then correct the mistake and click send again.

NOTES:

Cc stands for carbon copy : Anyone listed here will get a copy of the message and anyone who receives the message will know who else the message was sent to.

Bcc Blind carbon copy: Anyone listed here will get a copy of the message but anyone who receives the message will not know that the person(s) on the Bcc line were sent the message. It is recommended that you always use this field when sending messages to confidential mailing lists.

nicknames: When you add a contact to the address book you enter a contact name and a contact address. The contact name is called the nick name and can be used in place of the contact email address. Before the email is sent the system will substitute the email address in place of the nickname.

mailing list: A mailing list is a group of email addresses. Lists are useful when you frequently need to send email to many people at once. When you send an email to a mailing list the system will automatically send the email to each member of the list . If you want to keep your list membership private then send to the list using the Bcc field.