I can't save my emails to my hard drive. Why not?
I use XP home, Firefox browser and yahoo free email.
Is it yahoo? I asked them but I never got a response.
Is it Firefox?
When I click on emails I thought I saved, instead of opening, they try to connect to the internet, or else they open but my emails are not there.
I need to save my emails, but they're not saving.
Why not?
Sincerely perplexed,
Troy
Why do you want to do this? Yahoo has folders designed to save your email.
If you insist, just copy the content to a file.
You could also forward the email to a pop account.
There's not realloy a way to save them except to take a screen shot or sign up for POP access with OE, ThunderBird, or another email client. I have POP access with Yahoo. It appears to be free for Asians, so if you set your preferences that way, you can get free POP access, too. The tip came from the YPOPS site, and that is another possibility.
download your Yahoo! Mail in an email client, such as Outlook
forward your Yahoo! Mail to a different address"
So I guess Yahoo is now charging for what used to be free. I used to be able to save my emails to my hard drive and I didn't change anything. I guess yahoo changed it "for" me.
And I guess that if I go to OE or Thunderbird, then I can save my emails to my hard drive via POP---(which is Greek to me). Right?
And as to Hughv's question. I just lost all my emails---(which I couldn't record on my hard drive---at mistertroy3@yahoo.com
So Yahoo is unreliable.
And by the way, how do you type in the "Reply" box instead of this "Quick Reply" box?
It wouldn't work for me. I couldn't place my cursor to begin to type.
Sincerely,
Troy
I'm looking for a free email service that lets you save your emails to your hard drive. Does anyone know of one?
What's the best one?
Evidently Yahoo isn't free anymore.
Sincerely,
Troy
Well you can use G-mail as a free email service.
With the G-mail you can configure your outlook as well as your Outlook Express and will get your all mails in your hard drive. G-mail provides free IMAP account for your outlook configuration.
Hope this will help you.
Thanks everyone.
So let me get this straight,
I want to be able to save my emails to hy hard drive while using my favorite web browser (Firefox).
So will G-mail or Google or Live.com let me do this?
Troy
I signed up, but cannot even log on to Google email.
And fastmail.fm doesn't work for me either. I could send an email to myself at fastmail.fm from yahoo, but not vice-versa.
I have no idea.
Why is this so difficult?
Also it doesn't cost yahoo anything to let people save their emails to their hard drives, so why do they prevent this?
So that people will need to pay ffor it?
Troy
You need to approach this slowly and methodically. 6 year old kids can use Gmail, so you can also.
Sign up again, write down your user name and password and try again.
I don't know Yahoo's reasoning, but they have millions of dollars invested in equipment and personnel, so none of these services are free to the companies that provide them.
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