A free email service by Yahoo!. It currently supports POP3 and IMAP.
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Does Yahoo! have sub email addresses like Gmail?
I know that with Gmail they have sub-addressing, which they call plus addressing, and you can enter myaddress+anythingelse@gmail.com and it will be sent to myaddress@gmail.com and tell you it was sent to that address.
Does Yahoo! have anything like…
user56016
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Yahoo! email address is a long string of random letters and numbers
Around 10 years ago, Yahoo! used to have this email program for minors that my mom signed me up for. Since then they have discontinued the system, while I was still a minor. Because of that, I have been unable to access my email for about 5 years,…
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Do email services send sender's IP address?
If I'm going to receive/send email through Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo, would I be able to see the IP of the sender?
I know there's nothing to do with the IP but would it give away the location from where I'm sending emails?
user121032
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How to search and sort emails in the spam folder of Yahoo Mail
In Yahoo Mail, I am checking the emails in my spam folder, just in case that some emails have been mistaken as spam.
But in the spam folder, the emails are sorted by their "nominal"
receiving times, instead of the actual receiving times. By…
Tim
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Is there a way to forward my Yahoo mail to my Gmail account without paying?
I looked around a little bit on Yahoo and it looks like if I upgrade, I can forward my email. But I'm a cheapskate and I hate checking different accounts. Is there anything I can do?
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If I close my Gmail account will somebody be able to register my previous mail address?
If I close (is delete an option ?) my Gmail account, will somebody be able to register using my email address and read my mails?
I want to close my Gmail account but I don't want anybody to impersonate me with my old address.
Same question with…
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Hacking, Spoofing or Malware explosion
It could be just coincidence, but in the week that my wife complains that her account has been 'hacked', I receive dodgy emails from most of the people I know who still use Yahoo accounts.
When my wife received reports from her contacts that they…
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Characters in email displayed like: =E2=80=99
I sent out an email recently that gave the wrong character representations. The email itself is a newsletter sent out through Gmail and the issue doesn't seem to happen too often. The recipient sent me the email he received (he had read it on an…
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Import Yahoo! Mail and contacts to Gmail without Y! Mail Plus
I don't have Yahoo! Mail Plus so when I tried to import from Gmail as someone else has it doesn't work for me and I get migration errors.
Only a month's worth of email is imported after I tried to reimport mails. Previously new mails are not…
Vicky
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How can I find out why Yahoo! classifies my mail as spam?
I've a Yahoo! email account and when sending emails from my company to it, they always at first get into Spam. It's not about that I can't find the "No spam" buttons, but whenever someone from our company sends someone at Yahoo an email, until it's…
mark
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Viagra website spam mail
My email yahoo account is picking random people from my email address book and sending them a link to a website to a site for Viagra pills and other pills that treat the same thing. I'm getting emails back from friends some amused by it and some are…
Mary B.
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Keyboard shortcut to unmark all emails in Yahoo! Mail
We can mark all emails using keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A in Yahoo! Mail. Are there any keyboard shortcut to unmark all emails?
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Note: Keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A is not listed here.
chanchal1987
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Permanently enable plain text mode in Yahoo! Mail
The last button (icon) in the image below is Switch to Plain Text mode. It fits perfectly with my needs.
How can I permanently switch to plain text mode?
(If there is no such feature, I guess I will create a custom script and post it here.)
Ionică Bizău
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In Yahoo Mail, can I create subfolders?
I would like to create subfolders for additional organization options ie,
Kids, having the following sub folders:
education
sports
etc.
The number of folders that I use is becoming cumbersome to manage!
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How do I check my available storage in Yahoo Mail?
I want to know how much I have used from my storage and how much I have left. Where can I see that?
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