All-new Mail Tip: Draft Message as E-mail form letter
April 15th, 2008
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Loading ...Just last month I wrote about the auto-save feature of the all-new Yahoo! Mail. I think you’ll agree that is a great feature. Some emails went around the office just recently with a great tip for using the ‘save to draft feature’, that I didn’t even know existed.
This tip is great for anyone who sends the same form letter to a whole bunch of people. (Note to you spammers out there – stop reading) Saving an email message as a draft is an excellent way to keep a single template for form letters.
Here’s all you have to do:
- Write your message, and click Save Draft to save it to your Drafts folder.
- Now, when you’re ready to use it, click Drafts in the folder list, highlight the message and click ‘Edit Draft’ (or just double-click the message to open it).
- With the message open, now you can add a new “To:” or “Cc:” address.
- Ready to send it? IMPORTANT: Hold down the shift key and click Send. (If you don’t hold down the Shift key, the message is removed from your Drafts folder when you send it.)
There you have it. Now, if you go back to your Drafts folder, you’ll find that the message is still there just waiting for the next time you have to send it out.
Sorry, but this feature is only available to users of the all-new Yahoo! Mail. So if you’re using the Classic version of mail, and would like to try this feature out, you can always switch to the new mail.
Happy emailing
Andrew - Yahoo Mail Team
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7 Comments Add your own
1. Daniel | April 16th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Hold down the shift key to keep the message in your drafts folder. Great tip thanks!
2. anca | April 19th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
nice…..:)
3. kathy | April 26th, 2008 at 7:25 am
draft message as email form letter - thanks - didn’t realise I had to hold the shift key, that is why I lost the draft, very helpful
4. JimD | April 27th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Excellent feature, came in very handy when I needed to send selected template emails to a number of individuals.
5. Beate | May 3rd, 2008 at 6:22 am
In the past it was always possible to save drafts permanently until you updated the Classic version of yahoo.
Thank you for giving us back this feature (although only available in the new yahoo email). It is extremely useful.
Best wishes
6. Steve P | June 10th, 2008 at 6:15 am
PLEASE stop making changes to Yahoo Classic Mail. It worked fine and it’s very frustrating to have to learn a whole new system. It SUCKS! And by the way a lot of people DO NOT want the New and Improved Mail.
I use the DRAFT feature a lot and now I can’t even figure it out. I want to SAVE drafts from previous mailings make changes and save again. This way I have a history of drafts I have sent out. Now when you save an already existing draft and make changes the previous draft is gone. What’s this all about. Who can help me figure out this very inconvenient “upgrade”?
7. Noam | June 17th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Please put this same functionality back into Yahoo Mail Classic.
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