Managing the message list

Certain actions with messages can be performed without leaving the email list.

Message actions in the Yandex Mail app

Check your email

Pull the message list down and release it.

Pull the screen to the right.

Move email to a folder

Android

iOS

Select the emails. To select an email, click on the sender's image in the message bar.
Tap More → Move to folder.
Select the folder you want to move the email to.

Select the emails. To select an email, click on the sender's image in the message bar.
Tap the icon, and then at the bottom of the screen.
Select the folder you want to move the email to.

Apply or remove label

Android

iOS

Select the emails. To select an email, click on the sender's image in the message bar.
Tap → Labels.
Select a label and tap Done.

Select the emails. To select an email, click on the sender's image in the message bar.
Tap the icon, and then at the bottom of the screen.
Select a label and tap Done.

Mark an email as read, important, or spam

Android

iOS

Select the emails. To select an email, click on the sender's image in the message bar.
In the upper part of the screen, tap:
— mark the message as read
— mark the message as unread
— mark the message as spam
→ Mark as important (or in the tablet version of the app) to mark the email as important.

Select the emails. To select an email, click on the sender's image in the message bar.
At the bottom of the screen, tap:
— mark the message as read
— mark the message as unread
— mark the message as spam
— mark the message as important

You can also quickly mark one message as read or unread using a gesture. Move the message bar to the right.

Find a message

Click the icon in the upper right corner. Select one of your recent queries or enter a new query. Tap Find on the keyboard.

Delete or archive a message

Method 1

: Move the message row to the far left.

Method 2

: Move the message bar to the left until it reaches the middle of the screen. Then tap to delete the message. If you chose archiving for this gesture, tap to archive the message. To learn more about how to configure this action, see Managing gestures.

Method 3

Pull the message bar to the left until it reaches the middle of the screen, then tap on Android or on iOS.
Select Delete or Archive.

To delete or archive multiple emails:

Android

iOS

Select the emails. To select an email, click on the sender's image in the message bar.
Tap the icon at the top of the screen to delete emails. Or tap → Archive to archive the emails.

Select the emails. To select an email, click on the sender's image in the message bar.
Tap at the bottom of the screen to delete the messages or to archive them.

Set up an email list

Use conversation mode to organize your mailbox. It groups your emails by subject and sender and displays other emails in the thread on the email page.

To enable conversation mode:

Pull the screen to the right.
Under the list of folders and labels, tap Settings.
Select the account where you want to enable conversation mode.
Turn on Group messages on Android or Group by subject on iOS.

To view the list of messages in a thread, tap the email row.

Make the email list compact

You can turn on the compact mode to fit more emails on the screen.

Android

iOS

Pull the screen to the right.
Under the list of folders and labels, tap Settings.
In the Application block, enable the Compact mode option.

Pull the screen to the right.
Go to Settings → General.
Turn on the Compact mode option.

If you have the Yandex Mail widget on the home screen of your device, you can view the email folder you chose in the widget window.

Message actions in the mobile version of the Yandex Mail website

To open the action menu for a particular message, pull the message bar to the left until it reaches the middle of the screen, and tap More. This menu contains all the standard actions you can perform with a message: reply, forward, delete, mark as read or as unread, move to a folder, or apply a label.

To apply actions to multiple messages at once, select several messages. Do it by tapping the sender's thumbnail in the message bar. You will see an action menu for multiple emails at the bottom of the screen. This menu contains the following actions:

— delete messages
— mark messages as read
— mark as unread
— mark as spam
— mark them as not spam
— show additional actions (To folder, Archive, Labels)
— move to other folders
— move to Archive
— label messages