Chat right from your inbox
Instantly get in touch with online friends
without ever leaving Yahoo! Mail
Chat right now .
no download or set-up
There's no need to install anything extra on your computer–you can chat anywhere you can sign into your Yahoo! Mail account!
Go from email
to chat and back again
If a friend you're writing an email to becomes available online, you can switch your email message to a chat message and talk right away. You can also switch your conversation back to an email again.
See which of your contacts are online at a glance
You can even chat with several contacts at the same time. Each conversation you have is separated into a different message tab for easier reading.
Get started
- Change your Chat status to available
- See who's online
- Click a contact and chat away
