Backing up Yahoo Mail to Hard Drive

Is everything stored on line?

I use yahoo mail too, web based.

I also use mozilla thunderbird on my hard drive.

From what it looks like, if you download Thunderbird onto your hard drive, you can go to your online yahoo account, forward all messages to your Thunderbird mail on your hard drive, use the shift key to select all messages and then archive them, left side of screen.

I couldn't find a way to transfer directly from yahoo mail to a file on hard drive.

I'm sure you could do something similar with outlook, ms mail, etc.

I did this with about 12 emails and it worked. If for some reason it doesn't, no worries, your original emails will still be on yahoo.

Right now Yahoo is the only mail I was using, I don't have an email account with my ISP. But i will try and activate my outlook and see if I can convince it to read the yahoo mail. It will probably ask me all kinds of strange questions though, like POP this or POP that. I'll see what I can do tonight.

It will ask you those questions, but if you can get those messages into outlook, they will be easy to save to your hard drive.

If you go to your ISP's homepage, you should find instructions somewhere for how to configure with outlook.

If you want to directly save it to your external harddrive, use POrtable Thunderbird. Setup the account in thunderbird using POP, then retrieve all the emails from the yahoo web mail.

You can use Zimbra if you have more than one yahoo accounts

Either of the options posted above will work. I use one of the free plugins (PDFCreator is one) to save emails as pdf's for record purposes. That way I'm not limited to being on-line or having a particular email program available to see the documented information.