Setting Yahoo Availability Through Yahoo Mail

Finding Your Yahoo Availability Settings Through Yahoo Mail

Ever leave your Yahoo! Mail signed in to receive an IM at the worst possible moment? Take advantage of your Yahoo! availability settings through Yahoo! Mail and let your contacts know when you are open to talk.

To access the Yahoo! Mail availability settings, find the status menu located to the right of your name adjacent to the Yahoo! Mail logo in the top, left-hand corner.

Available Setting Through Yahoo! Mail

Choose “Available” from the Yahoo! mail availability settings to let your contacts know you are available to receive IMs through Yahoo! Mail.

Busy Setting Through Yahoo! Mail

Choose “Busy” from the Yahoo! Mail availability settings when you are working on the computer, on the phone, in a meeting or otherwise cannot be interrupted.

Invisible Settings Through Yahoo! Mail

Choose “Invisible” when you want to appear offline on Yahoo! Mail. This option allows you to continue IM in Yahoo! Mail with your choice of online users without appearing available to others.

[Note: Members to whom you appear offline to can still send you IMs, which would regularly be saved in your offline messages. They will receive a message that you are offline and will receive their IM when you sign back in, despite having already received the message.

Signing Out of IM Through Yahoo! Mail

Limit interruptions while in Yahoo! Mail by selecting “Sign Out of Chat,” which effectively ends your Yahoo! Mail IM sessions and allows you to check your Yahoo! Mail inbox without receiving IMs.

Personalized Availability Messages Through Yahoo! Mail

Screenshot of www.mail.yahoo.com reproduced with permission of Yahoo! Inc. ©2009 Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! Mail users can also create a personalized availability message by selecting "Custom Status Message…" from the Yahoo! Mail availability settings.

Complete Creation of Your Yahoo! Mail Availability Message

A custom availability setting window will appear in Yahoo! Mail, allowing you to select the level or your availability in addition to adding a personalized availability message for Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger users to see.

Once complete, select “Ok” and your message will automatically appear on Yahoo! Mail. The message will also be saved for use in the future.