recovering emails

[Triboy]

Following a computer breakdown I thought I had lost all emails most of which referred to my family history research. I have now discovered that they still exist on Yahoo. There could be over 1000.
The problem is I have no idea how they can be transferred to my current email address or copied to a Usb flash drive. There are some attachments and possibly photos, can they be transferred.
Any help gratefully received.

[hallmark]

Just select whatever emails you want and Forward them to your new address.

[[Ray]]

. . . . . then smell the coffee and ensure you backup everything you want to keep long term,  everything, whatever it is from whatever source.

(After clearing the snow (1m wide x 50cm deep x 100m+ long) I'm having problems climbing down from my soapbox due to having aching hamstrings and glutes)

 

[Triboy]

Hallmark,
Is it possible to forward multiple emails at the same time? otherwise it becomes a long drawn out process. How can they be transferred to a flash drive.

Ray,
Next problem is how to back up for someone not terribly tech savvy.

[hallmark]

If it was me....

I'd go to Yahoo and then

Select All messages

Mark them Unread.

Log Out.


Then I would download Thunderbird

Fill in my Yahoo email Address and enter my Yahoo Passwork when requested.

Allow T/bird to complete and it should Download them to T/Bird Inbox.

...from where you can then also Select All and Save them to Disc/Stick etc

So you'd have them on Yahoo, in T/Bird and on Disc/Stick.

[Triboy]

Thank you for that hallmark. Will the same technique work with gmail and will attachments also be transferred?

[hallmark]

With T/Bird, you can get mail from all or any of your email address all in one place by Adding Accounts to it.


I only use it for Gmail but can add any other email account.....

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[andrewalston]

The same should work in most mail reader programs; I'm an Office 2010 user so I use Outlook.

The most commonly supported connection type is known as POP3. You may need to google the relevant POP3 settings for your provider. It is common to use non-standard port settings to avoid attacks by people sending spam. Outgoing mail is handled through SMTP. Again, non-standard port settings have become the norm.

POP3 copies the whole of each message to your local storage. It's normal to set it up so that older messages are deleted from the host server.

The other mail connection type is called IMAP. With that, the store at your end is a mirror of what's on the server. Delete from one and it goes from the other too. Again, google for the settings.

[familydar]

So glad I saw this.

My parents are moving house and their Virgin Media account is being closed on the day of their move.  No thought had been given to all the email on Virgin's servers, to which they would no longer have access.

I've just downloaded Thunderbird onto my own pc and it's currently downloading Dad's messages.  I think I've set it up to store locally, the fact it says it's downloading messages presumably confirms this.

Hallmark, could you give me step by step instructions please on how to transfer all my Dad's email from my own pc to his, once he has moved and his computer is set up.  Presumably I need to export it, but I can't see the setting.  And if there's anything else I need to do in advance.  Although I can "remote in" to his computer if absolutely necessary I'd rather not, and I can't get to visit them before the move, which is the end of next week.

Also, the message download has now finished and I can scroll through them, but it's automatically opening them as I go and I'd prefer it didn't, where is the setting to change this please?

Many thanks
Jane :-)