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send inbox back to old email account.
I hate Outlook and think I made a huge mistake. I was wondering if there is
anyway I can send my inbox back to my yahoo account. Since I set this up yesterday it took all of my old inbox messages and deleted them from yahoo. Thanks |
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send inbox back to old email account.
Ammend the outlook mail settings to leave a copy on the server.
Forward mail back to yourself "Angel" wrote in message ... I hate Outlook and think I made a huge mistake. I was wondering if there is anyway I can send my inbox back to my yahoo account. Since I set this up yesterday it took all of my old inbox messages and deleted them from yahoo. Thanks |
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send inbox back to old email account.
"Angel" wrote in message
... I hate Outlook and think I made a huge mistake. I was wondering if there is anyway I can send my inbox back to my yahoo account. Since I set this up yesterday it took all of my old inbox messages and deleted them from yahoo. Thanks That is how *all* POP3 e-mail clients work by default. They retrieve the mail (RETR command) and then follow by deleting it from the mailbox on the server (DELE command). That is how POP is defined to work. If you don't want to delete your mails from your mailbox after retrieving a copy then investigate the options in your e-mail client on leaving those mails on your server after retrieving a copy of them. Regardless of which POP e-mail client you used, and because they default to the "RETR then DELE" sequence, your mails are no longer in your mailbox up on the mail host. To get them back in your mailbox means you will have to send your local copies in your e-mail client to your e-mail address. That is, send those mails to yourself (but don't poll again with your e-mail client which will RETR and DELE again or first configure your e-mail client to not do the DELE command; i.e., have it leave the messages on the server). You never explained why you need to leave a duplicate of a message up in your mailbox on the server after you already yanked a copy of it and have it available locally in your e-mail program. POP is not a very good protocol if you want to access your mailbox using multiple e-mail clients (while travelling or from different hosts) or by sharing the mailbox amongst multiple users. IMAP is better suited for that. I don't remember seeing Yahoo Mail supporting IMAP. If Yahoo Mail does not support IMAP, you're stuck with configuring your e-mail client to leave messages on the server. I've heard that the iPhone or Yahoo Mobile [cellphone] users can use an IMAP server (imap.next.mail.yahoo.com) at Yahoo Mail but it requires a special login sequence. I doubt IMAP is available for any of the freebie Yahoo Mail accounts. IMAP is a more expensive protocol than POP regarding the resources it consumes and why many e-mail providers only give you POP access to your mailbox. Post Office Protocol (POP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_office_protocol Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imap |
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