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The email service provided by Yahoo Inc.

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How can I get a backup of my Gmail and Yahoo mails to my PC?

Is there a way to backup all mails of my Gmail and Yahoo mails to my local computer... I don't use Outlook... How can I get a backup my Gmail and Yahoo mails to my PC? Any ways...
ACP
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Can a Yahoo employee read my email?

I have a friend who works in Yahoo and claims that he can hack into anyone's email. Is that really true? I know its a vague question but I want to know if employees of Yahoo and Google have access to some database through which they can hack into…
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Yahoo IMAP Spam folder not recognized by Outlook 2007

Yahoo uses the name Bulk Mail for it's spam folder, when connecting via IMAP. However, Outlook 2007 by default uses the name Junk E-mail. So whenever I connect to my Yahoo email account with Outlook, it makes this folder, which then appears on…
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Remote host said: 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected. [RCPT_TO]

I got the message in the heading after sending an email from a Yahoo account to the address of an institution that had always admitted my correspondence (until yesterday). What does the above error imply? What is 550? What is #5.1.0? What does…
XavierStuvw
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Thunderbird does not delete messages from the POP server

Thunderbird does not delete messages from the POP server. I am a Yahoo Plus user and I can download messages from the inbox in Thunderbird from the Yahoo POP3 server. However, I want to delete read messages directly on the email client rather than…
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Characters in email displayed like: =E2=80=99

I had originally posted this on the Webapps site from stack exchange, but didn't get any response, so I thought I'd try here as well. I sent out an email recently that gave the wrong character representations. The email itself is a newsletter sent…
Umar Ghouse
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Stop Firefox displaying Chinese in Yahoo Mail

Yahoo Mail is displaying Chinese (or other?) language characters on the webmail view. I tried to eliminate it by disabling all Add-ons disabled, but it still came up the same. I found that deleting the Firefox file prefs.js corrects the problem (But…
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Why is there so much spam coming from Yahoo! Mail accounts?

In the last 1-2 months, I have received spam from at least 3 or 4 friends I know with Yahoo! Mail accounts. It seems there's some systemic problem there, but I don't know what it is. Were Yahoo! Mail account passwords compromised en masse?
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How can I see the "original mail" on yahoo, like gmail?

I have a mailbox on yahoo and I would like to view some email original source like gmail's option, "show original mail". Is there an option like that in yahoo? I couldn't find it.
john terry
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How can I transfer emails from MS Outlook to Yahoo?

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…
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How to add yahoo mail account to outlook 2013?

I was able to sync Hotmail and Gmail accounts to Outlook 2013, But Yahoo! is giving me trouble. Kindly guide how to add Yahoo! account to Outlook 2013.
Yajuvendra Vant
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macOS Mail delay when fetching from Yahoo via IMAP – related to “NO [LIMIT] CAPABILITY Rate limit hit” message?

I have long used Apple’s standard Mail.app client for OS X and macOS, since it is, to me, overall by far the best mail client in existence. For several years now, however, it’s annoyed me that it’s exceedingly slow at fetching mail from Yahoo! mail…
Janus Bahs Jacquet
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Work around for yahoo mail slowness (using 100% cpu)

My yahoo mail is very slow sometimes. When it is, I notice that IE8 is using 100% cpu. Using sysinternals process explorer I discovered the thread using all the cpu in IE8 has Flash in the stackwalk. I upgraded flash from 9 to 10, but the problem…
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Yahoo Mail forwarding?

Is there any way to have my Yahoo Mail forwarded to another email address, without getting Yahoo Mail plus?
Roy Tang
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Feasibility of transferring email from Yahoo to GMail using IMAP and PC email client

A friend of mine wants to move from Yahoo to GMail. I've had a search on the web, and most of the articles seem from some time ago and/or might not work. I wonder if anyone could comment on whether the following would work? Install Thunderbird (or…
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