Yahoo mails are individual web pages, not computer files, so there is no easy way to archive or store them. You can sign up for a Yahoo Plus account at ~ $20 per year, and download the mail to a desktop program such as Outlook or Thunderbird (Firefox). Thunderbird makes the settings easy.
Yahoo! typically provides access to a POP server if you have a free account in a non-USA yahoo domain (for example de.yahoo.com or yahoo.co.uk,or Yahoo Asia) though you may have to sign up for Yahoo Delivers. You would need a brand new account for this to work. If you get a free account in the USA (www.yahoo.com) you only have support for web mail and need to add something like the YPOPs! add-on or the web mail extension.
Or, you can download a POP service such as Programs for web mail to POP 3 settings (using Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail program):
YPOPs!: Open source Yahoo! Mail proxy program for Windows, Mac, and Linux. See these setup instructions for Thunderbird (with screenshots) or the official instructions.
# MrPostman: Open source proxy program for Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail, and more written in Java.
# FreePOPs: Open source extensible proxy with Lua scripting for AOL, Hotmail, Netscape, Yahoo! and more.
# Poppeeper: A freeware solution that allows you to use Hotmail, Mail.com, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Yahoo! Mail, and others, with your e-mail client.
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Yahoo mails are individual web pages, not computer files, so there is no easy way to archive or store them. You can sign up for a Yahoo Plus account at ~ $20 per year, and download the mail to a desktop program such as Outlook or Thunderbird (Firefox). Thunderbird makes the settings easy.
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Yahoo! typically provides access to a POP server if you have a free account in a non-USA yahoo domain (for example de.yahoo.com or yahoo.co.uk,or Yahoo Asia) though you may have to sign up for Yahoo Delivers. You would need a brand new account for this to work. If you get a free account in the USA (www.yahoo.com) you only have support for web mail and need to add something like the YPOPs! add-on or the web mail extension.
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Or, you can download a POP service such as Programs for web mail to POP 3 settings (using Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail program):
YPOPs!: Open source Yahoo! Mail proxy program for Windows, Mac, and Linux. See these setup instructions for Thunderbird (with screenshots) or the official instructions.
# MrPostman: Open source proxy program for Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail, and more written in Java.
# FreePOPs: Open source extensible proxy with Lua scripting for AOL, Hotmail, Netscape, Yahoo! and more.
# Poppeeper: A freeware solution that allows you to use Hotmail, Mail.com, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Yahoo! Mail, and others, with your e-mail client.
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