The Five Yahoo Tips and Tricks You Really should Know
1. How to Recover a Forgotten Yahoo! Mail Password
To reset your Yahoo! Mail password if you have forgotten the phrase or cannot access your account:
- Go to the Yahoo! Password Helper page.
- Make sure I have a problem with my password is selected.
- Click Next.
- Type your Yahoo! Mail email address under My Yahoo! ID is:.
- You can also enter just the user name part (what comes before, for instance, “@yahoo.com”).
- Now type confirmation code from the image or audio playback under Type the code shown.
- Click Next.
- If you have specified an alternate email address for recovery:
- Type your alternate email address under Send a message to my alternate email address:.
- Click Next.
- Open the email from Yahoo! with the subject “How to reset your Yahoo! password”.
- Follow the Reset My Password link in the message.
- If you want to answer your secret question:
- Make sure Use my secret questions. is selected.
- Click Next.
- For each question:
- Enter the answer beneath the question.
- Click Next.
- Type the desired password under New password: and Retype the password:.
- Click Next.
- You can then change this password to whatever you like (and will remember); it is best, of course, to use a strong password.
2. How to Recover Lost or Ultimately Deleted Yahoo! Mail Messages
To rescue messages that have disappeared from your Yahoo! Mail account during the past 24 hours or undelete messages after you have emptied the Trash folder:
Download all messages received yesterday and today at your Yahoo! Mail account or forward them to a different email address automatically or manually.
These messages will otherwise be lost forever.
Fill out the Yahoo! Mail Restore Help Form.
While you wait for Yahoo! to return your Yahoo! Mail account to the state at the desired time from a backup copy, make sure you continue to forward or download any newly arriving messages.
3. How to Block a Sender in Yahoo! Mail
To have Yahoo! Mail delete all mail from a particular address automatically:
- Hover the mouse cursor over the settings gear in Yahoo! Mail or click that gear.
- Select Mail Options from the pull-down menu that has appeared.
- Open the Blocked Addresses category under Advanced Options.
- Type the unwanted email address under Add an address:
- Click +.
- Your updated list of blocked senders will be saved automatically.
4. How to Block a Sender in Yahoo! Mail Classic
- To add an email address to the list of blocked senders in Yahoo! Mail Classic:
- Make sure Mail Options is selected in the top Yahoo! Mail Classic navigation bar.
- Click Go.
- Open the Spam category.
- Enter the email address you want to be blocked under Add a blocked address: (in the Blocked Email Addresses: section).
- Click Add.
5. How to Create a Mailing List in Yahoo! Mail
To set up a list for group mailing in Yahoo! Mail:
- Go to Contacts in your Yahoo! Mail’s navigation bar.
- Click New List.
- Type the desired name for the list.
- Hit Enter.
To add members to the list you just created:
- Drag and drop them onto the list (from All Contacts, for example).
You can also use Assign to Lists for any contact to add them to one list or more.
Send Mail to Your Yahoo! Mail List
And now that you have a mailing list in Yahoo! Mail, you can start using it!