For years I have been told you can’t download Yahoo Mail for a free account. I know Yahoo wants users to view the ads and they want/need the revenue the ads provide. I don’t have a problem with sites receiving revenue, without that money coming in, a lot of sites would disappear.
But since hackers are getting more access to email accounts and sometimes taking them over, what can users do to prevent loss of their stuff stored in their email? For some folks, losing their accounts could be devastating.
For starters, changing the email mail account password for something almost impossible to guess would be a really good move. But with the advent of encryption breakers, even that might not protect that email account. (Use LastPass to keep that password.)
There are nearly always work-a-rounds with Windows and more than one way to do stuff. You can download all of your Yahoo mail to your computer using MailStore. This program is so simple to use and it is free for home users.
But a lot of folks want to download their Yahoo mail to their computers so they can read, send, reply and save attachments to files, etc. This has required a paid email account for as long as I can remember.
Today I downloaded the contents of my free Yahoo email account. How did I do it? I did not use YPOPS although a lot of folks have used this very successfully. I downloaded my Yahoo email to Thunderbird using IMAP. It was so easy! I don’t know if this is new or if it has been around awhile, but I just found out about it today.
It works in Windows Live Mail 2012 as well, and I have no doubt it will work with Outlook and any other email program that supports IMAP. In Windows Live Mail 2012, I had to enter the server settings manually. but Thunderbird did it for me.
One thing of note though, you still need to save your contacts.
"But a lot of folks want to download their Yahoo mail to their computers so they can read, send, reply and save attachments to files, etc. This has required a paid email account for as long as I can remember."
ReplyDeleteActually, no. You just had to use a Yahoo! Mail Classic link, you could still access POP3 with it. This post is too-little-too-late since all Y!MC links were disposed of July 9th (the day after this post), but before the 9th people were still able to get the features that we were given free over a decade ago (forwarding/POP3/IMAP). Sadly, IMAP is now a hidden service so it's not easy to find unless you know what you are looking for.
Oddly enough, AOL seems to be the go-to provider for Y!MC fans.