How to Make All Yahoo! Mail Read

Yahoo! Mail allows you to select all emails and mark them as "read," but there is a limit to that feature: You can only select all mail on the current page. If you have more mail than will fit on a single page, there is no way to select them all at once. This means you will have to mark the messages read in blocks at a time. However, to minimize this additional effort, Yahoo! allows you to list up to 500 emails per page. Furthermore, you can filter the results to display only unread messages.

Instructions

Viewing 500 Messages per Screen

1. Log in to your Yahoo! Mail account.

2. Click "Options" at the top-right of the window and click "Mail Options" in the drop-down menu. Click "Continue" if you see a warning window stating you will lose any open chat conversations.

3. Click the drop-down menu next to "Messages/results per page" in the "General" pane on the right and select "Show 500 messages/results on each page."

4. Click "Save Changes" at the top of the pane.

5. Click "Back to Mail" at the top of the left-pane to return to Yahoo! Mail.

Displaying Only Unread Messages

1. Click the top "Mail Search" button, without entering any keywords in the search field, to access advanced search features.

2. Enter your email address in the text box next to "Recipient." Yahoo! requires something to search, so entering your email address, or just "yahoo.com," finds all of your messages.

3. Check "Search" next to "Options."

4. Click the drop-down menu next to "Search" and select "Only Unread Messages."

5. Click "Mail Search" at the bottom of the page to display all unread messages.

Marking All Read

1. Click the top-left check box, located just below the action buttons. This selects all mail on the page.

2. Click the "Mark" drop-down menu and select "Mark as Read" to mark them all read.

3. Click "Next" and repeat the marking procedure to mark those emails read.

4. Continue until all emails are marked. By displaying 500 messages at a time, and limiting the results to only unread messages, this should not take long, even with large mail boxes.