e mail & spam presentation
TRANSCRIPT
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Getting Started With Yahoo! Mail
Presenter: Newton Kwaku Vivor
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Outline
Introduction General Preferences Adding Your Signature Draft and Sent Messages Managing Your Inbox Filtering Mail Protecting Yourself From Spam (SpamGuard) Auto Responds Email Attachment Address Book (Importing and Exporting Address
Book) Switching to Yahoo Beta
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Introduction
This presentation will review how to maximize the utility of your Yahoo E-mail account
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What is E-Mail?E-Mail stands for Electronic Mail
Access Method Web Based E-Mail:
Yahoo Mail Hotmail Gmail
E-Mail Client Microsoft Office Outlook Outlook Express
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General Preferences
Under the General Preferences you have the option to adjust the settings of your Email account
Hands On: Personalize your account Customizing the number of Messages to be displayed
in your Inbox Order of Display (Ascending or Descending order)
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Adding Signature
It is more personal Provides additional means of contact through:
Addresses Telephone number
Hands On: Add a Signature Send a message to your colleague Verify if the Signature was appended
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Draft Folder
Draft
Enables you to save your message to be sent later
If you lack some information or an email address you can save the message as a draft
Hands On: Compose a message Save Draft Send Message
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Managing Your Inbox
Hands On: Creating a Folder (e.g. Family) Moving Messages to Folder Sorting out Messages
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Auto Respond
Send a custom, automatic message response when you are absent
Specify a particular response to be sent for a specific Email address or domain
Hands On: Set duration for auto respond Set generic respond Set special respond
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Email Attachment
Send documents and pictures to friends and family or business associates
You can attach files up to a total message size of 10.0MB
Hands On: Send an attachment to a colleague View the attachment you received
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Managing Your Inbox
You can organize your incoming and outgoing Messages into different Folders:
Inbox Sent Draft Trash Bulk E.g. Family
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Filtering Mail
Automatically sort incoming messages into different folders
Hands On: Changing Filter Order Filtering and Mobile Alerts Editing and Deleting Filters
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Address Book (Importing & Exporting Address Book)
Hands On: Adding a Contact Editing Contact Information Sending Email to a Contact Deleting a Contact Printing, Importing & Exporting Contact
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What is Spam?
Spam is an unsolicited E-mail – E-mail which you never asked for. It is also referred to as "junk" E-mail
Spam Protecting (SpamGuard)
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How Spammers got your E-mail address
Spammers possibly got your E-mail address because:
You provided your E-mail address on shoddy sites (E.g. Free music or software download websites)
You signed up for newsletters on sites that have no privacy policies
You put your E-mail address on a web page
Subscribing to one or more of the great deals or Once-in-a-life-time kind of E-mail/website offers.
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Spam blockers in Outlook Express or a Web-based E-mail accounts
Anti-Spam filters is software that filters your e-mail and separates spam from real E-mail. E.g., SpamEater Pro Spamkiller
Always report and delete spam E-mails. NEVER reply to spam E-mail!
How to Manage Spam Effectively
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Editing Spam Settings
Click Edit Spam Protection Settings
Turn Spam Filter On or Off
Mark Spam + Not Spam
Image Blocking
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Customize anti-spamtools to maximize your spam protection:
Editing Spam Settings
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Configuring Yahoo Account for Spam Protection
Click Mark Messages as Spam
This action does the following: Delete the message Report the message Block Sender marked as spam
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Deleting and Reporting Spam
Step by step review: Login to your Yahoo
E-mail account Access Inbox Check all identified
Spam Messages Click on the Spam
tap Check automatically
block sender
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Detrimental Effects of SPAM
a waste of productive time presents a risk to the proper operation of your computer slowing your system down, crashing your system
logging your keystrokes, stealing private information
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Switching to Yahoo Beta
Principal Advantages:
Drag and drop emails into folders No more loss of mail due to internet
connection failure Multitasking
Multiple tabs Compose and attach simultaneously