Forward Yahoo Mail
Forwarding messages is a great way to pass an interesting message onto a friend or coworker, but it can also be a quick way to backup or transfer your messages to another service. If you no longer want to use the Yahoo! Mail interface, you can have all of your Yahoo! mail automatically forwarded to a different address. If you want to forward a bunch of messages at once, you'll need to use a mail client to work around the lack of support on the Yahoo! Mail site.
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Steps
Forwarding a Received Message
- Open the message that you want to forward. If you want to forward a single email to someone, you can do so from the Yahoo! Mail web inbox, or from the Yahoo! Mail app. Open the message that you want to forward to someone.
- Click or tap the Forward button. It looks like a right arrow (⇨) and can be found on the top toolbar. You can also click the "Forward" link at the bottom of the message, or press ⇧ Shift+F while the message is open.
- Enter in the address(es) you want to forward the message to. You can forward the message to a single person, or as many people as you'd like. You can enter in the name of a group of contacts to forward the message to everyone in the group.
- Add an additional message (optional). You can add a message to your forwarded email. It will appear at the top of the original email when the recipient opens it.
- Send the message. Once you have added recipients and any additional message, you can forward the email by clicking or tapping the Send button. The message will be forwarded to all of the recipients you set.
Auto-Forwarding Mail
- Log into your Yahoo! Mail account. You'll need to do this from your computer so that you can access your account settings.
- Hover over the Gear icon and select "Settings". The Gear icon can be found in the upper-right corner of the Yahoo! Mail screen.
- Select the "Accounts" option in the left frame. This will display your active Yahoo! Mail account.
- Click the "Edit" button next to your account name. This will open a new window where you can set your auto-forwarding settings.
- Select the "Forward" option. This will automatically forward all messages you receive to a new address. Your messages will still be stored on your Yahoo! Mail account as well unless you select "Forward Only" from the drop-down menu.
- Enter the address that you want to forward your messages to. All future messages that are sent to your Yahoo! Mail address will be automatically forwarded to the address you enter here.
- Click "Save" to confirm your forwarding settings. Future messages that you receive will automatically be forwarded based on the settings you entered.
Forwarding Messages in Bulk
- Install Outlook or another email client. You cannot forward messages in bulk using the Yahoo! Mail web interface. You'll need to use a workaround if you want to forward a lot of messages at once, and using Outlook, or another client such as Thunderbird, allows you to do this the quickest.
- Add your Yahoo! account to Outlook. You'll need to add your Yahoo! account details so that Outlook can download all of your Yahoo! messages to your computer.
- Open the "Account Settings" menu, which you can find in the File tab. If you're using Outlook 2003, click the "Tools" menu and select "Email Accounts".
- Click the "New" button and select "Manual setup".
- Select "POP or IMAP" and then enter your name and Yahoo! Mail address.
- Select "IMAP" from the drop-down menu, then enter imap.mail.yahoo.com into the "Incoming mail server" field and smtp.mail.yahoo.com into the "Outgoing mail server" field.
- Enter your Yahoo! Mail address again into the "Username" filed, and enter your Yahoo! Mail password into the "Password" field.
- Click the More Settings... button, select the Outgoing Server tab, and check the box.
- Select the Advanced tab and change "Incoming server" to 993 and set the encryption to "SSL". Change "Outgoing server" to 465 and set the encryption to "SSL".
- Wait for your messages to download. Outlook will begin downloading all of your Yahoo! Mail emails to your computer. If you have a lot of emails this could take a little while, but the process only needs to happen once.
- Find all of the emails you want to forward. Your emails will be organized in the same folder system that you were using on the Yahoo! Mail website. Your folders will be displayed in the left sidebar of the Outlook window.
- Select all of the emails that you want to forward at once. You can hold Ctrl and click each individual email, hold ⇧ Shift and click two messages to select a range of emails, or press Ctrl+A to select all of the messages in the current folder.
- Click the Forward button. You'll find this in the Home tab of Outlook. You can also press Ctrl+F, or right-click on the selected messages and select "Forward". A new message window will appear.
- Check that your messages are attached. When you forward multiple messages in Outlook, each message is added as an attachment to a brand new message. Your recipients will then be able to open each attachment to view the original email. This is how Outlook works around the limitations of not being able to forward multiple messages at the same time.
- Add recipients and send the email. Add recipients to your new email message, and include a subject and a body explaining that the emails are attached to the message. Click the Send button, and the message will be sent from your Yahoo! Mail address to the recipients you entered.
- Your recipients will need to open the attached messages in an email client like Outlook or Thunderbird in order to read them, though many web email services will display all of the emails messages in a row when the message is opened.
