For the first time I use MS Outlook 2007 for Yahoo Mail and I've configured it. All of the emails have downloaded from the Yahoo server and to Outlook and as a result, the Yahoo inbox is completely empty.
How can I undo it and add the mail back to my Yahoo inbox (about 300 emails)?
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In respond to Dave Rook, he has given me an idea how to set up IMAP in MS Outlook. I have the same issue like you did. I set up Pop3 yahoo for my MS Outlook. I never unchecked the box saying 'Delete mails from the server after downloading to my MS Outlook. I did not like the idea of forwarding all my emails from MS Outlook to Yahoo again.
Here is the solution.
Do not delete Pop3 yahoo account from MS Outlook. If you did that, you will eventually delete all your emails in MS Outlook.
Now, create IMAP account.
IMAP configuration has to match below
Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server - Requires SSL
Server: imap.mail.yahoo.comPort: 993Requires SSL: YesOutgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - Requires TLS
Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.comPort: 465 or 587Requires SSL: YesRequires authentication: Yes
Once you have done that, go ahead and synchronize with the yahoo server. Make sure you input your username and password correctly. After MS Outlook has downloaded all the yahoo mails into MS Outlook IMAP configuration, perform copy and paste of all the missing emails into your IMAP configuration folder from Pop3 configuration mail folder in your MS Outlook.Once you have pasted all the email, click send and receive to synchronize with yahoo server. Once done, open your web browser, log into yahoo mail. You will see all your missing mails are back into the server.
Good luck
What you've probably done is created a pop3 account which is set up to remove it from the server on download.
You can't undo this process unless Yahoo! mail has a back up feature. However, there are ways to restore it.
You are probably best to do a few things. First is, change the settings in Outlook to not delete from the server (or at least, keep a few months worth of data) or even review IMAP (details about this further down this post).
In regards to getting them back I would bite the bullet and start emailing all the emails to yourself. This of course is not only laborious but also has other negative effects such as filtering. You also need to do this after you change your email settings in Outlook.
Option 1
Create a new account but use IMAP as this will keep a copy on the server. Then, this should sync them back automatically!
Option 2
Keep it as a Pop3 account, open up the account options in Outlook (File, account settings, account settings). Double click on the email in question, click on advanced tab and then in the new window, the last tab (I think called Advanced (doing this from memory)) will have an option to delete from server or to keep for X amount of days.
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Yahoo Mail offers 1TB (terabyte) of storage, which is sufficient space for millions of messages. If you are concerned about the security of your account, or prefer to store important messages locally instead of online, you can back up your emails to a flash drive. Yahoo Mail offers no native method to copy your emails to another storage medium but there are a few workarounds. You can either use a free PDF writer to save your emails as PDF documents or use software such as Zimbra Desktop to back up your email as EML files.
PDF Writers
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Download and install a free PDF writer such as CutePDF, doPDF or Bullzip (links in Resources.)
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Connect your flash drive to an available USB port on your computer or laptop.
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Sign in to your Yahoo Mail account and open the email that you want to save to a flash drive.
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Click the 'Show Images' link at the top of the mail if the message contains blocked images that you want to save with the email.
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Click the 'More' button and then select 'Print' from the drop-down list.
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Click the 'Print' link in the new window that opens and then select the PDF writer you installed from the list of printers.
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Click 'Properties' and adjust the page size, orientation and resolution according to your preferences.
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Click 'OK' and then select your flash drive when prompted for a location to save the PDF file.
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Click 'OK' to create the PDF file on your flash drive. Repeat the process for other emails that you want to copy to the flash drive.
Zimbra Desktop
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Download and install the latest version of Zimbra Desktop (link in Resources.)
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Open Zimbra Desktop and click the 'Add New Account' button.
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Select 'Yahoo' from the account type drop-down list and then fill in your Yahoo Mail account details.
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Click 'Validate and Save' and then click 'Launch Desktop.'
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Click the 'Preferences' tab and then select 'Import / Export' below the name of your Yahoo account.
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Click 'All folders' next to 'Source' in the Export section and then select the folder containing the emails that you want to copy to a flash drive.
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Click 'OK' and then click the check box next to 'Advanced settings.'
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Clear the check boxes next to everything except 'Mail' and then click the 'Export' button.
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Connect your flash drive to an available USB port and then click the radio button next to 'Save File.'
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Click 'OK' and then select the flash drive as the destination for the emails. The emails are copied to your flash drive in the TGZ archive format which can be opened with WinRAR or WinZIP. The individual emails inside the archive are saved in the EML format which can be viewed using software such as Outlook or Thunderbird.
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