Archiving Mail

[Maxx]

Guys

I have thousands of emails in folders. Is it possible to Archive them all to an external destination such as a hard drive or other email account? Unfortunately I am moving to a place where I cannot have rogers anymore and I'd hate to manually move them all to hotmail or something like it...

Thanks in advance

Maxx

[RogersCorey]

Greetings and welcome to our Community @Maxx!

Backing up your emails for safety or offline use is a good idea. Since Yahoo Mail doesn't have an export feature, it's important to understand what options are available.

• Print a hard copy
• Forward a single email to another email address
• Download your email from Yahoo Mail into a third-party app
• Copy and paste each email that you want saved into a text editor

I know you were hoping for an easy solution but these are the options open to you.

Regards,

RogersCorey

[Gdkitty]

I agree, if you are not already using one, is to use a 3rd party program, even windows mail (or a better one like outlook etc) to download them.

You will want to do the POP setup, where it will download a local copy (vs imap where its more of a sync).  With a little bit of work,  you might even be able to connect your new email address to that same and be able to access those existing ones and reply to them, etc.

[Pauly · Accepted solution]

I second what Gdkitty said. I used to do this at least ONCE to TWICE a year get in the habit of archiving my email account. I would go even further and if you select all the messages from your inbox, and drag them into a folder, it copies each individual message as a .MSG file and I would back up each individual message into a folder, zip it or archive it to DVD.

Because I had a small registered business I was required to keep a copy of my financial records for a good 7 years I also kept electronic copies of my emails because I had quotes and such in there and was required to keep a record of them so why the heck not just copy all my email and back it up right? so this is what I Did!

[Maxx]

Thanks everyone for your help and advice. I will look into a 3rd party app...

Maxx

[Houlahoop]

Really?! Many businesses and personal users have 1000's of messages that need to be backed up or moved. Most don't have time or the knowledge to complete what is being suggested. I would think a tech company will have a resolution to this which makes sense to the everyday layman who uses Yahoo/Rogers mail. If there has been an update to the process I would appreciate knowing what it is so I can back up some mail. Thanks.

[57]

@Houlahoop : Most businesses use an e-mail client like Outlook which duplicates what's on Webmail and that would be on a computer/laptop.  In this way you can back-up the entire computer and/or back-up all of Outlook, including contacts, e-mails, calendar events, etc to a .PST or similar file.

An individual could use an e-mail app like say Mail on a tablet or phone. This would then "download" all of your e-mails to that device and you would then have a backup on your device.  You can also then backup your device to the cloud or  laptop or desktop computer.

[bdash]

How do you do what you said you do?  What is a MSG file?  How do you select all of

them?

[Pauly]

hi bdash,

Correction, it is actually a .eml file.  with Microsoft MS Outlook opened, go to the inbox folder, select ALL of the emails start at the most recent, and click the top, then hold shift, and scroll to the bottom email, and click it, this will select ALL. then in windows, not outlook, create a new folder, and drag it and arrange the windows so you see both the folder and outlook together on the screen, then click all the highlighted emails, do not let go of the mouse button, keep holding it down, and drag the emails to the folder you created.  your individual emails will be copied as files ending in a ,eml extention.  short for email.  

I do this once a year. to archive my emails so if i ever lose it, i can copy them back the same way into my email account.  this is called Object Linking and Embedding, or short form OLE