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Author:  Merlene Guldager
Home Page: Gold Acres Designs







What you will need:

An Account with Yahoo Groups.


This tutorial will help those new to Email groups and YAHOO Groups change from their YAHOO mail account (created when you joined) to your personal email account. It will also help you control how your mail arrives and what it looks like in the later sections of the tutorial.

  1. Go to YAHOO Groups and Log in.
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  2. Click On My Account
  3. Log in again. You will then see your ID Card
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  4. Click on the Edit button next to the Yellow highlighted banner reading Member Information
  5. You will notice several boxes for alternate email addresses. Enter the new address you want to use. You can always change one or add more later.
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  6. Scroll all the way down to to bottom of the page and click the Finished button.
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  7. Now you will see your new address listed under your Yahoo address. The Yahoo one will say Primary. After the new one(s) you entered it will say (pending)
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  8. Now click on the Edit button again. Now when you look at your addresses it under the new one(s) Not Verified (Click here to Verify).
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  9. Click on the Click here to Verify. On the next page that opens click on the Verify your email now button. (or if the address isn't correct as shown click the edit button to correct it)
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  10. Follow the instructions in BLUE in your Email from Yahoo. When you click on the BLUE your Browser will open and you will receive notification that you have verified your address. Click on Continue to Yahoo.
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  11. Log in again...
  12. Now click on the Edit button one more time and change your Primary Alternate Email account to the new one you just added.
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  13. Click the Finished button at the bottom. The page will change to show the changes you just made.
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  14. You are now on the Yahoo Groups main page. At the Left border is a list of all the groups you belong to. If you only belong to one click on it's name. Otherwise look to the right just above the Blue Banner and find the words My Groups and click on them.
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  15. Click on the Button that says Edit My Groups. (If you click on the name of a group skip to # 19)
  16. All your groups appear in a list with several options in columns. The one we want is Email addresses. Click on the drop button next to the one you want to change and select the new address from the choices there.
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  17. Now click on the Save Changes button and you are done.
  18. If you went to an individual group in step 16 find the words on the right in the banner with the group name that say Edit my Membership and click them.
  19. Under Email address on the next page click on the Drop box button and choose your new address.
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  20. Click on the Save Changes button and you are done.
  21. Now let's choose how your group mail arrives. On the MY GROUPS page click on a group you belong to. Then click on the words Edit Membership Go down the page until you see the following.
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  22. Most groups want you to be an active participant and prefer you choose Individal Email. One note here...if you in a group that sends stationery or graphics of any kind this is the only choice that will allow you to receive that content. YAHOO no longer allows images to archived on group sites nor do they include them if you choose to read your group mail on the Web Only. The embedded or attached images are forwarded as part of Individual emails only.
  23. Last but not least is the choice of Message Preference. YAHOO recently added what they call enhanced email or Fully Featured. This is now the default setting when you sign up. But again, if your group is including graphics of any kind you will want to choose the Traditional preference. In the Fully Featured choice YAHOO has a Vertical Banner ad that usually shows up right down the middle of the embedded or attached graphic. And the Banner ad doesn't move down or away as you scroll through the message. The only way to prevent this is by choosing Traditional. In this preference the banner ad is still there but is horizontal and does not block embedded or attached images from displaying. example
  24. Once you have made your choices on this page click on the Blue Save Changes button and you are done. Well at least until YAHOO thinks of something else to complicate group mail. :)

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