Web-Based e-mail
What
is web-based e-mail?
Having a web-based e-mail account means that
e-mail messages are available from any computer with an Internet connection and
a web browser. The e-mail messages are not kept on your computer. The messages
are kept on the server where you log in to get to your mail. This means you are
restricted to the storage constraints of the e-mail provider. It is important
to clean out e-mail messages that are not needed to avoid reaching the e-mail
limits.
Does
web-based e-mail cost anything?
Once you have an Internet connection and a
web browser on a computer, then there are plenty of FREE web based e-mail
accounts. Some web-based e-mail providers charge a fee if you use more than the
allowed storage space.
Is
it okay to have more than one e-mail account?
The short answer is YES. But the answer is
really up to you and how you wish to manage your electronic communications.
Some people have certain e-mail accounts for specific purposes, such as one
account for friends and family and one account for professional use. Some
people prefer to have only one e-mail account for all communications.
How can I get a web-based e-mail account?
Steps
for creating a Yahoo! E-mail account: (There are other web-based
e-mail
accounts to use, such as www.hotmail.com)
1. Open a browser (example: Internet Explorer, Netscape,
Mozilla).
2. Type in www.yahoo.com
in the Location/Address field of the browser.
3. Click on Mail at the very top of the screen.
4. Find the section that says, "New to Yahoo?"
and click on Yahoo! Mail.
5. Click on Sign
Up for Yahoo! Mail
6. Fill out the form and click on Submit This Form.
7. Once all of the fields have been entered correctly,
your logon ID is unique and you have determined if you want news to be
delivered to your inbox, then you will have an e-mail account. There should
already be mail from Yahoo! in your inbox.
8. Remember your login ID and your password. You will
need them the next time you want to log into your account.
Sending
an e-mail message:
1. Log into your Yahoo! e-mail account at www.yahoo.com
2. Click on Mail
and enter your login ID, Password, and click on the Sign In button.
3. Click on Compose to start a new message.
4. Fill in the recipient’s e-mail address in the To:
field.
5. Fill in the Subject: field.
6. Fill in the message in the large box below the Attachments:
field.
7. Click on the Send button.
1. Log into your Yahoo! e-mail account at www.yahoo.com
2. Click on Inbox or Check Mail.
3. Click on the subject of the message to be read.
4. Now that the message is open, you can reply or forward
the message to someone else by clicking on the Reply or Forward
buttons.
5. Type in your response and click on the Send
button.
Sending
an e-mail message with an attachment:
1. Log into your Yahoo e-mail account at www.yahoo.com
2. Click on Compose to start a new message.
3. Fill in the recipient’s e-mail address in the To:
field.
4. Fill in the Subject: field.
5. Click on the Attachments button under the Subject: field.
6. There are three steps to attaching a document to a
Yahoo e-mail message. Click on the Browse
button to find the document to send. This process is similar to finding a file
to open.
7. Select the document to be attached to the e-mail message
by double clicking on the file name or by clicking on the Open button after
clicking on the name of the file.
8. Once the path for the file can be seen in the
Attachments window, click on the Attach Files button. (This may take a
while.)
9. Click on the Done
button at the bottom of the page once you see the document name on the list of
attachments.
10. If all goes well, the original e-mail message will be
displayed on the screen and the name of the document will show under the
Subject: field of the message.
11. Type in a message as you would normally do for any
other e-mail message.
12. Click on the Send button.
You just sent your first attachment!
Note: To read attachments that have been sent
to you, you can just click on Scan and Download Attachment, then click on the
Download Attachment button. Depending on how things are set up on your computer
system and what you want to do with the attachment, you may want to download it
to your computer for later use or just open the file.
