Yahoo Mail

How to check recent login activity in Yahoo Account

June 14, 2014 By Ravi Shankar 8 Comments

Yahoo has a feature that allows user to check their recent login activity. This is quite useful when you want to monitor from where all your account was accessed. The Recent Login Activity can be launched through the Yahoo Account details screen.

Step 1: Login Yahoo Account.
Step 2: Click the drop down option available below the Yahoo username (top right corner) and select Account Info from the drop down menu list.

Step 3: You may be asked to enter the password to access the Account Info screen.
Step 4: Scroll down to the Sign-In and Security section and click the View your recent sign-in activity option.
Step 5: The Recent sign-in activity screen should display the following details about the login details.

You can also see the Location instead of IP Address as shown below.

If you are suspicious about the account being accessed by others then you can use this feature to monitor your account activities.

How to create rules in Yahoo Mail

August 29, 2013 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

Yahoo Mail has a feature that lets users to create filters to move the incoming messages to specific folders. This is similar to rules feature available in Microsoft Outlook that can be used for blocking emails based on subject.

Let us consider the scenario where you have subscribed to daily newsletter of a blog and want to move these emails to specific folder.

Creating filters in Yahoo Mail

Step 1: Login in to Yahoo Mail account and click Settings icon then select Mail Options from the drop down list.

Step 2: In the Mail Options screen, navigate to Advanced Options and click Filters.

Step 3: Click the Add button available on the Filter screen.

Step 4: Enter name for the filter as “newsletter”

Step 5: Then enter the email address of newsletter for Sender with Criteria as “contains”. Navigate to “Then deliver the email to following folder” drop down and create new folder for newsletter.

Step 6: Click Save button to confirm and save the changes.

Now this would move all emails from “[email protected]” to specified “newsletter” folder.

Later if you want to delete this filter then you can use the Remove Filter option available next to Add button.

How to display email size in Yahoo Mail account

March 31, 2011 By Ravi Shankar 5 Comments

Yahoo Mail account provides option for the users to display the size of an email. By default if your Yahoo Mail does not display this column then you can use the options link to change this behaviour.

On the right hand side of the Yahoo Mail account, click the drop down arrow available next to Options link

Select Show from the list of available menus and then followed by Selecting Size Column.

Now the email list would include a new column which displays the size of each email as shown below.

How to change the number email messages displayed in Yahoo mail

August 10, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 8 Comments

The number of email messages displayed per page in a Yahoo email can be changed using the Mail Options. Click on the Options link available on the top of the right hand side. Select Mail Options from the menu list.

In the General Page, using the Messages/results per page field you can increase or decrease the number of email messages displayed per page.

The list of available values are

After selecting the required value, click on the Save Changes link available on Top of the General section. By this way you can change the display of email messages per page in Yahoo Mail.