Minnie, I don't know if it has a forwarding feature, but I use yahoo all the time and it seems very easy to me. What do you find so confusing when using yahoo mail? Maybe I, or someone else, can help explain it to you.

Tami

This yahoo ...

... has been using Yahoo! addresses for a long time, and find them easy to use.

What is it about them that you find difficult, Minnie?

Yahoo doesn't alert me when I get an email - I find out only when I go to that address and open it.

I've never used AOL.

ole joyful

I've used Yahoo for years, and I also have a Gmail account that gets little use. I much prefer Yahoo.

No, Yahoo will not forward email.

I opened an account there long ago for things I wasn't sure about. It's always full of junk from things I've subscribed to but don't want to be bothered with in my real email. Easy enough to go there every now and then and clean it out.

I have Yahoo for here at the GW, and also I allow certain stores to send me their ads. I don't have any problems with it. I don't use it for any personal emails. Recently when Yahoo made changes and you were given the option to stay with old yahoo, I did that. No problems that way either.

In the last days or so when the hijack news came out, it didn't get me and the spam that I've been getting is down to only 2-3 a day, so that was a good thing.

Sue

Thanks I guess I'm just used to the ease of using AOL mail

Minnie, take the same name and password, and open a gmail account. Look at gmail. Who knows, it might be easier and less confusing to you?

I have gmail and yahoo mail. I am another one, that never had AOL.

I had mail through my provider, but with every move, I had to change my email address, cause I ended up changing providers. That is when I ended up with my gmail account. I use it for all my personal mail.

Yahoo is for sign ups, and another yahoo address is for gardening, another for gardenweb. See, I have several addresses. :)

Moni

Moni I have a gmail address. it is more confusing than Yahoo. I cant find an address book to add or delete cant find the sign out button etc. in AOL everything is right there you press address book and they all show up. etc.
just aol spoiled

I understand that things can be confusing until you get used to it and I appreciate that you're used to AOL and want the email to be like AOL, but what I don't understand is why not just use AOL instead of something else if that's the interface you like?

There's other options like using PopPeeper. Clean, simple interface. It'll alert you when mail arrives. You can use it for AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Mail, Hotmail, Juno, Netzero and many others and it'll check multiple accounts.

Most email clients can be set up to fetch mail from other email clients. Try the instructions on this link, they may be out dated but may still work, at one time you could only do it with the pay version of yahoo but I think it should work for the free one. But aol has always been strange so not sure. I too recommend trying to wean your self off of aol it's seriously outdated.

I have one of mine set up to fetch the mail from the others then I can view all my accounts in one place.

Here is a link that might be useful: Fetch mail

Minnie, on google, in the upper left hand side (at least on my screen) is the word google

under it it says gmail

besides the gmail is a small triangular button pointing down. If you click on it, you see other options, like contacts (addresses) and tasks. I can't tell you anything about tasks... I never use that.

Are you with me so far?

For me, the sign out (again, that depends on what it looks like on your screen) is on the right hand side, way up, again, a triangular button. If you click on it you get the option to sign out.

But, honestly, I only sign out if I use someone elses computer. I don't sign out on my own computer.

Moni

Thanks everyone I'll try some of the ideas. The reason I ws tying different mails was mostly because a cyber friend of over 12 years was getting so much junk and spam mail from aol addreses he was going to block all inoming. He has since relented. With a litle more study and patience I think I can do G and Yhoo