Import Email Back to Yahoo Mail Plus
For the past several days I have been plagued by a mistake I made. I finally got a new Dell PC (yes, I'll stick with Dell) and installed my Windows Ultimate Vista and Office 20007 Standard I won at a conference I attended back in February 07. Yes, even I get lucky sometimes. The installation was a breeze for both the OS and Office but that's another blog entry.
Needless to say Outlook 2007 setting for Yahoo pop mail was completed within a couple of minutes or less and I think that was the root of my issues. clicking the "more settings" button on the Internet E-Mail Settings window gives you four other tabs the last one of which is the "advanced" tab. I was so excited to download all my 1,900 email messages in my new Outlook 2007 that I neglected to get to the last task of at this point of the setup - a task I have done diligently for about 3 years now. The e-mail "Delivery" options allows one to (a) leave copies of email on the pop server. In this case, pop.mail.yahoo.com. It also allows one to (b) remove copies of email after certain number of days and lastly to (c) remove email from server when it is deleted from the "deleted items" on your Outlook. Like I said, I was too giddy to try my new Outlook 2007 and didn't do or forgot to get to these options. Outlook, naturally downloaded all my email and I really didn't realize it until I got to work the following morning while accessing my Yahoo mail plus on IE 7 browser. I am not the only one with this mistake, there are instances on Yahoo "answers" like this one at this link.
I was livid. I like my Yahoo mail plus and I have paid for it for about two or three years now, so what if it cost $19.95 per year but it is so devoid of those animated banners asking me to re-finance my mortgage, and it is so easy to use that I gladly renew my yearly cost. Some might argue why not just keep your email on your desktop as Outlook archive or as .pst file. With a lot going on in life and more than 40 hours work and family obligations, it takes an organize freak to keep email for year s and know where every thin is. Wait, I am one of those people that changes hard drive periodically whether they fail or they become cheaper so I have relied on Yahoo mail plus to keep my email on Yahoo's server, after all I have been using Yahoo since it was born. I do the same with Gmail but with Outlook Express (Windows Email on Vista) for business emails and because of my mistake with Yahoo mail plus I have not even attempted to download the messages from Gmail, therefore those are safe.
To resolove this mistake I searched Yahoo and /or Google for a way to upload mail back to the pop server and unfortunately only found a freeware for Gmail developed by a Gmail enthusiast, Mark Lyon, GMail Loader (GML). All results for Yahoo email plus are those where you can import your calendar and contacts into Yahoo mail plus. I am no programmer but I think Yahoo (and Gmail) should officially add this feature(s) because it will give both competitive advantage. With the new Web 2.0 technology like AJAX etc I am sure this should be possible. If anyone reading knows of a solution to this (I do not want to forward the emails to myself) please add comments to this post ... thanks.
Needless to say Outlook 2007 setting for Yahoo pop mail was completed within a couple of minutes or less and I think that was the root of my issues. clicking the "more settings" button on the Internet E-Mail Settings window gives you four other tabs the last one of which is the "advanced" tab. I was so excited to download all my 1,900 email messages in my new Outlook 2007 that I neglected to get to the last task of at this point of the setup - a task I have done diligently for about 3 years now. The e-mail "Delivery" options allows one to (a) leave copies of email on the pop server. In this case, pop.mail.yahoo.com. It also allows one to (b) remove copies of email after certain number of days and lastly to (c) remove email from server when it is deleted from the "deleted items" on your Outlook. Like I said, I was too giddy to try my new Outlook 2007 and didn't do or forgot to get to these options. Outlook, naturally downloaded all my email and I really didn't realize it until I got to work the following morning while accessing my Yahoo mail plus on IE 7 browser. I am not the only one with this mistake, there are instances on Yahoo "answers" like this one at this link.
I was livid. I like my Yahoo mail plus and I have paid for it for about two or three years now, so what if it cost $19.95 per year but it is so devoid of those animated banners asking me to re-finance my mortgage, and it is so easy to use that I gladly renew my yearly cost. Some might argue why not just keep your email on your desktop as Outlook archive or as .pst file. With a lot going on in life and more than 40 hours work and family obligations, it takes an organize freak to keep email for year s and know where every thin is. Wait, I am one of those people that changes hard drive periodically whether they fail or they become cheaper so I have relied on Yahoo mail plus to keep my email on Yahoo's server, after all I have been using Yahoo since it was born. I do the same with Gmail but with Outlook Express (Windows Email on Vista) for business emails and because of my mistake with Yahoo mail plus I have not even attempted to download the messages from Gmail, therefore those are safe.
To resolove this mistake I searched Yahoo and /or Google for a way to upload mail back to the pop server and unfortunately only found a freeware for Gmail developed by a Gmail enthusiast, Mark Lyon, GMail Loader (GML). All results for Yahoo email plus are those where you can import your calendar and contacts into Yahoo mail plus. I am no programmer but I think Yahoo (and Gmail) should officially add this feature(s) because it will give both competitive advantage. With the new Web 2.0 technology like AJAX etc I am sure this should be possible. If anyone reading knows of a solution to this (I do not want to forward the emails to myself) please add comments to this post ... thanks.
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