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• Attachment: a separate file included as part of an email message; for example, a photograph or document file.

• Bulk folder: a permanent folder that holds messages it identifies as spam.

• Case-sensitive: lower and uppercase letters are not treated the same; for example, a is not the same as A.

• Compose page: the page in Yahoo! Mail where you address, write, and send email messages. 

• Contact: a person you interact with; someone you might want to send an email or instant message to.

• Draft: an unfinished version of an email message that you save in the Draft folder to complete and send later.

• Filter: a rule that Yahoo! Mail uses to direct an incoming message to a particular folder.

• Folder: a container in a Yahoo! Mail account that holds email messages.

• Forward: to send an email message that you receive on to someone else.

• Inbox: a folder where you receive incoming email.

• Junk mail: unsolicited email on the Internet; also called spam.

• Mail server: an application that receives incoming email and forwards outgoing email for delivery. A computer dedicated to running such applications is also called a mail server.
• Permanent folder: a mail folder that is automatically created in a  Yahoo! Mail  account and can't be deleted.
• Personal folder: a mail folder that the user created.

• POP3: Post Office Protocol 3, a standard client/server protocol for receiving email in which a mail server receives and holds email messages for you.

• Reply: to respond to an email message you received.

• Spam: unsolicited email on the Internet; also called junk mail.

• Spammer: someone who sends spam.
• Web-based mail client: a program (usually a web site) that any computer with an Internet connection and a web browser can use to access the mail server.

• Yahoo! ID : the name by which a person is known to all Yahoo! networks.