I sed my yahoo email address and password when setting up my windows mail
account. Now all of my yahoo emails are being transfered to my windows mail
account, starting with mail from several years ago. PLEASE help me to a) move
these emails back to my yahoo account and b) to stop emails from transfering
to my windows mail account. As soon as I open windows mail this is what
happens. Please help me to get the emails back!!!

Shut your Internet connection down before restarting Windows Mail.
Then open Windows Mail, go to Tools, Accounts, select your mail
account, Properties, Advanced, select the box for "Leave a copy of
messages on server." Click OK.

Unfortunately, since Yahoo doesn't offer IMAP accounts, there is no
easy or automated way to return already downloaded messages to
the server. You would have to forward each one individually.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"AdiL44" wrote in message ...
I sed my yahoo email address and password when setting up my windows mail
account. Now all of my yahoo emails are being transfered to my windows mail
account, starting with mail from several years ago. PLEASE help me to a) move
these emails back to my yahoo account and b) to stop emails from transfering
to my windows mail account. As soon as I open windows mail this is what
happens. Please help me to get the emails back!!!

"AdiL44" wrote in message
...
I sed my yahoo email address and password when setting up my windows mail
account. Now all of my yahoo emails are being transfered to my windows
mail
account, starting with mail from several years ago. PLEASE help me to a)
move
these emails back to my yahoo account and b) to stop emails from
transfering
to my windows mail account. As soon as I open windows mail this is what
happens. Please help me to get the emails back!!!

You can't move the mails back, they have been deleted from the server.

You can re-send them to yourself, but this usually isn't helpful as all of
the mails will be from you, to you, and at more or less the same time. So,
sorting will be meaningless.

To stop this, in the Advanced settings for the account, select "Leave a copy
of mail on the server", and perhaps "for X days".

HTH
-pk

it's hard to imagine a company such as microsoft initiating a program with so
many flaws as windows mail. I wanted to use it as a base for all of my
emails and contacts but just so many problems makes it impossible. The
contacts area is a joke.

"Patrick Keenan" wrote:

"AdiL44" wrote in message
...
I sed my yahoo email address and password when setting up my windows mail
account. Now all of my yahoo emails are being transfered to my windows
mail
account, starting with mail from several years ago. PLEASE help me to a)
move
these emails back to my yahoo account and b) to stop emails from
transfering
to my windows mail account. As soon as I open windows mail this is what
happens. Please help me to get the emails back!!!

You can't move the mails back, they have been deleted from the server.

You can re-send them to yourself, but this usually isn't helpful as all of
the mails will be from you, to you, and at more or less the same time. So,
sorting will be meaningless.

To stop this, in the Advanced settings for the account, select "Leave a copy
of mail on the server", and perhaps "for X days".

HTH
-pk

"GT" wrote in message
...
it's hard to imagine a company such as microsoft initiating a program with
so
many flaws as windows mail. I wanted to use it as a base for all of my
emails and contacts but just so many problems makes it impossible. The
contacts area is a joke.

Whatever limitations or shortcomings Windows Mail might have unique to
itself, clearing mail off a POP server isn't one of them.

This is standard default behaviour for most, if not all, POP mail clients.

The very good reason for this behaviour is that it's quite easy to fill
server space, and then you can't receive mail at all.

HTH
-pk


"Patrick Keenan" wrote:

"AdiL44" wrote in message
...
I sed my yahoo email address and password when setting up my windows
mail
account. Now all of my yahoo emails are being transfered to my windows
mail
account, starting with mail from several years ago. PLEASE help me to
a)
move
these emails back to my yahoo account and b) to stop emails from
transfering
to my windows mail account. As soon as I open windows mail this is what
happens. Please help me to get the emails back!!!

You can't move the mails back, they have been deleted from the server.

You can re-send them to yourself, but this usually isn't helpful as all
of
the mails will be from you, to you, and at more or less the same time.
So,
sorting will be meaningless.

To stop this, in the Advanced settings for the account, select "Leave a
copy
of mail on the server", and perhaps "for X days".

HTH
-pk