How to Set up a Yahoo! Groups Account

How do I set up my Yahoo! Groups account? Joining Yahoo! Groups is easy! To get started you will need to register for a Yahoo! ID and link it to any email addresses you wish to use for Yahoo! Groups.

Registration

1. Click on the Registration link on any Yahoo! Groups page. Note: If you already have a Yahoo ID (username) you skip registration and click the Already have an ID? Sign In in the upper right corner (skip steps 2-3).
2. Complete the registration form and click on Submit This Form. Note: The Yahoo! ID you choose must be unique. It does not need to match your email address.
3. You should receive an email confirming your registration. Make sure to record your Yahoo! ID and password. You will need these to sign into Yahoo! Groups.

Setting up your account

Sign in to your account to access the following features.

1. Use the Membership Wizard to locate your current subscriptions or to add up to 5 email addresses to your account. This is used if you are already receiving emails from the TripowerCycling list but have not accessed the website for Yahoo Groups before. This will LINK your email address to your Yahoo ID.
2. My Groups allows you to manage your account and group memberships.
3. Click on the Account Info link near the top-right corner to change your Yahoo! account and profile information.

How to Add/Verify an Email Address

Yahoo! Groups makes it easy to change the email addresses you use for subscriptions. Before you make any changes to your address, however, it's important to understand how your account works.

Your account is identified by the Yahoo! ID you use to sign in. Your preferences, profile, and email addresses are all part of your account.

Your account can have up to 5 email addresses that can be used for group subscriptions. To view the addresses linked to your account, go to My Preferences.

To change your email address, you will first need to add your new email address to your account. Skip to the next set of instructions if the address is already linked to your Yahoo! ID.

Adding an email address to your account:

1. Sign in using your Yahoo! ID and click on Account Info.
2. Click on the Edit button to the right of Member Information.
3. Add your new email address as an Alternate Email Address and click Finished.
4. Click on the Edit button to the right of Member Information again.
5. Click on the Non-verified link and follow the steps to verify the address.
6. Go to groups.yahoo.com and click on My Preferences.
7. The new address should be listed as "Not currently available for subscription." Click on the Edit button to the right of Email Addresses.
8. Click on the Convert link to the right of the new email address.
9. An email with an authorization code will be sent to the address. (It should arrive within minutes, but may take longer. Please allow up to 12 hours to receive the email.) Follow the instructions contained in the email to complete the process.

Changing your subscription addresses:

1. Go to My Groups
2. Click on Edit My Groups
3. Use the drop-down menus to select the appropriate email address for each group, and click on Save Changes.

Removing your old email address:

1. Go to My Preferences and click on the Edit button to the right of Email Addresses.
2. Click on the Remove link to the right of the email address you no longer want to use.

 

How do I verify my email address? In order to use an email address for Yahoo! Groups, the address must be verified. The easiest way to set up your account is to use the Membership Wizard. The wizard will show all of the email addresses you currently have available for use in Yahoo! Groups. Any unverified addresses will be listed at the bottom of the second page. Next to the address will be a Verify link. Click on the link to generate a verification email that will be sent to you at that address. Follow the instructions contained in the email to complete the process.

If the email address you wish to use is not listed, click on the Add new email address link.

If you are having difficulty verifying an address, please read the following troubleshooting steps.

The email never arrives
If you are not getting the verification email at all, please make sure you are using a valid email address. If you have tried to verify your alternate email address several times and you still never receive the mail although your address is valid, we recommend asking your ISP if they are blocking any mail from Yahoo!. If you have your mail forwarded, you may not receive the verification email. Also, please note that while the mail will arrive quickly, it is not instantaneous. In some cases, the email may be delayed several hours due to Internet traffic and the email delivery route. If you and your ISP are not blocking any email and if it has been over 24 hours since you've tried to verify your alternate email address, please let us know.

No code in the email
If you are receiving the verification email, but there is no code in the body of the email (around the middle of the email, surrounded by asterisks), you may not be viewing the correct email. The Groups verification email is different from the email you received when you first registered for your Yahoo! account. However, if you are viewing the correct email and cannot see a confirmation code, please forward this email to us. Please send it as regular text, not as an attachment. We will then investigate the problem further.

Alternate email address did not match
If you have received the verification email with the code and you've followed the instructions, but have received an error that your email address did not match, it is possible that you have used a different email address than the one on record for your account. If these addresses are different, the verification will not work. Please note that you cannot verify your "@yahoo.com" email address. Your alternate email address is the non-Yahoo! address you specified when you registered for your account. In order to check what email address you have with us, go to your My Groups page and click on Email Preferences.

Incorrect password
If your password did not work with the verification code and alternate email address, please make sure you are using the correct password. This password is the same one you use with your Yahoo! ID in order to access the different areas of Yahoo!. It is not your security key password or password on your alternate email address. It must be your regular Yahoo! password, entered exactly as you would enter it when signing into your account. Invalid code If you receive a message that the confirmation code is invalid, please make sure that the code in your email matches the code that you have entered into the confirmation page. If it was not automatically entered for you, we highly recommend copying and pasting the code into the code field. Copying and pasting the code may prevent errors since some letters or numbers may look similar. The code can be found about halfway through the confirmation email, surrounded by asterisks.