Yahoo! Hacks

Manage Yahoo! Mail

Take control of your mail by creating folders and filters for incoming messages.

Imagine you’ve just returned from vacation to find hundreds of messages waiting for you in your Inbox. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an administrative assistant to sort that mail into categories and separate the good stuff from the junk? By setting up some folders and filters, you can let Yahoo! play the role of assistant, keeping your incoming mail as organized as possible.

As in any email client, the folders in Yahoo! Mail are simply a way to organize several emails into a group. There are five built-in folders that you can’t remove:

Inbox

By default, all incoming mail, except messages marked as spam, arrives in this folder.

Drafts

Any email that you have partially completed and saved for later can be found in this folder. You can also use drafts as a message template for form letters that you send frequently.

Sent

This folder holds a copy of every email you’ve sent. This folder is enabled by default, but you can disable it by choosing Mail Options → General Preferences, unchecking the box labeled “Save your sent messages in the Sent Items folder,” and clicking Save.

Bulk

Email that has been labeled as spam by Yahoo! Mail will arrive in this folder instead of your in Inbox. You can clear the email in this folder at any time by clicking the [Empty] link next to the folder listing, or have Yahoo! automatically delete anything through a setting in Mail Options.

Trash

Deleted mail goes to this folder ...