In Vista -Windows Mail has downloaded all my Yahoo Mail?

[Guest]

Got a new laptop with Vista .....and Vista wouldn't let me set up YahooMail
as my mail client (??) like I had it set on my old Win2K laptop, so I set up
a Windows Mail account to be able to send email from web pages.

.....but now Windows Mail has downloaded 10 years of messages from Yahoo and
now they are no longer available on the Yahoo Web Mail server.

I really am pissed this has happened. I MUCH PREFER my mail archive
available and always stored on the Web....available from anywhere. Now I'm
stuck with my 10 years of my mail archive married to Windows Mail and
accessable and searchable ONLY on this particular computer .......MAJOR
BUMMER!

Now how do I stop Windows mail from removing my mail from Yahoo?

Is there any way I can upload my mail archive back to Yahoo?

Warren C.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

To keep your messages on the Yahoo server do the following:

1/ In Windows Mail Click the Tools option on the main toolbar
2/ From the drop down menu, Click the Accounts option
3/ In the Internet Accounts window, Click on your Yahoo email entry and then
Click the Properties button on the right hand side of the Internet Account
window
4/ The properties window for your Yahoo account should now open
5/ Click the Advanced tab
6/ Look down the advanced tab window. At the bottom you will see a section
marked 'Delivery' Place a tick in the box next to the option 'Leave a copy
of messages on server'
7/ You can also stipulate whether you want the mail to be deleted after so
many days or deleted when you delete mail from the deleted items box. Just
tick the relevant box. If you want to keep the mail permanently leave these
last two boxes alone.
8/ Finally click OK to close

As for returning your mail to the Yahoo server, you can only do it by
re-sending it to yourself and I don't envy you sending 10 years worth of
mail back to yourself at your yahoo account.

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Windows - Shell/User

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[Guest]

Thanks John....that helps from now on......turns out it's "ONLY" 3 1/2 years
of email downloaded to Windows Mail...but still over 5000 messages........too
bad I didn't know to do this when I set up the account.

Do you know any Web mail accounts that let you import an archive...(which I
guess would have to be in Microsoft Exchange format) ?.....like to get those
messages back on the Web somehow.

Do you know what's up with Vista...in that it won't let you configure
Internet Explorer to use Yahoo Mail (or any other web mail clients)...like I
used to do on my old laptop running Win2K. That's how I got into this
mess....I wanted to be able to email from within IE ..which I've always done
before with Yahoo Mail...couldn't figure out how without using Windows Mail.

Thanks again,

Warren C.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Do you know what's up with Vista...in that it won't let you configure
Internet Explorer to use Yahoo Mail (or any other web mail clients)...like I
used to do on my old laptop running Win2K. That's how I got into this
mess....I wanted to be able to email from within IE ..which I've always done
before with Yahoo Mail...couldn't figure out how without using Windows Mail.

There really is no such thing as a webmail client program. Webmail is
handled by going to a specific URL in your web browser.

You are talking about clicking on a mailto link on a web page.
As far as I know, a mailto link can only be handled by a real mail program;
there is no mechanism for it to call up a webmail URL. I have no idea
how your Win2K laptop was configured to do it.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

I think clicking the option to leave emails on the server is something that
many people would forget to enable. I would imagine that it would be better
if the option was enabled by default, at least then, if people didn't want
to leave messages on their web mail server they could, at least, disable it.
Pity you had to learn the hard way!

Unfortunately I don't know of a web mail account that will allow you to
import the emails. I have a Gmail account and I can't find anything on their
that allow for emails to be imported. Again, as I said in my last post, you
may have to do it the hard way, i.e., send them back to yourself.

Windows Mail doesn't even support Hotmail now or, as far as I know, any
other HTML email clients. Personally I use Outlook 2007 for downloading
'certain' mail, everything else is accessed via web mail accounts. The only
thing I use Windows Mail for is downloading newsgroups and, unlike outlook
express, WM is a pain at doing that!

Regards

John

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[newtotoolbar]

Got a new laptop with Vista .....and Vista wouldn't let me set up YahooMail
as my mail client (??) like I had it set on my old Win2K laptop, so I set up
a Windows Mail account to be able to send email from web pages.

....but now Windows Mail has downloaded 10 years of messages from Yahoo and
now they are no longer available on the Yahoo Web Mail server.

I really am pissed this has happened. I MUCH PREFER my mail archive
available and always stored on the Web....available from anywhere. Now I'm
stuck with my 10 years of my mail archive married to Windows Mail and
accessable and searchable ONLY on this particular computer .......MAJOR
BUMMER!

Now how do I stop Windows mail from removing my mail from Yahoo?

Is there any way I can upload my mail archive back to Yahoo?

Warren C.

Hi Warren,
I encountered a similar problem. Windows mail extracted all the
messages from my yahoo mail.
There was none on the yahoo mail.

After fiddling arround a bit, I found a way to get the mail back on
the yahoo mail server.
The steps are as follows
1. In your windows mail client, move all the messages to "deleted
items" folder
2. Now synchronize your yahoo mail account in the windows mail client
3. You will see that all the mail appears in yahoo mail's trash. You
can then move it to inbox or wherever you would like.
Note: All the above would happen if you are synchronizing all the mail
(not just the new).

It worked for me consistently.
Thanks.
Srikanth

 

[Guest]

There really is no such thing as a webmail client program. Webmail is
handled by going to a specific URL in your web browser.

You are talking about clicking on a mailto link on a web page.
As far as I know, a mailto link can only be handled by a real mail program;
there is no mechanism for it to call up a webmail URL. I have no idea
how your Win2K laptop was configured to do it.

 

[Guest]

In all previous IE versions you could configure IE to use your web mail
client to open the mailto link, by going to internet options, programs and
selecting your client from the drop down box, but now this is not available
in IE7, i am sure you should still be able to do this can any one shed some
light on the subject?
I used to have Hotmail associated, when i clicked on the mailto link,
hotmail would open a new message.

Ade

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

"Client" is the keyword. Unless your email 'client' is registered
with the OS, there is no way for a MailTo link in IE to work properly.
If you go to the Programs tab in Vista's IE7, it will send you to the
Default Programs applet. It just so happens that there is a workaround
to register Windows Live Hotmail with Vista's Default Programs:

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/224/1/

 

[Guest]

Thank you Gary for the workaround, much appreciated, however it still seems
strange that it takes a 3rd party program to enable this feature.
Another overlooked feature by Microsoft?

Regards
Ade

"Client" is the keyword. Unless your email 'client' is registered
with the OS, there is no way for a MailTo link in IE to work properly.
If you go to the Programs tab in Vista's IE7, it will send you to the
Default Programs applet. It just so happens that there is a workaround
to register Windows Live Hotmail with Vista's Default Programs:

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/224/1/
--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

In all previous IE versions you could configure IE to use your web mail
client to open the mailto link, by going to internet options, programs and
selecting your client from the drop down box, but now this is not available
in IE7, i am sure you should still be able to do this can any one shed some
light on the subject?
I used to have Hotmail associated, when i clicked on the mailto link,
hotmail would open a new message.

Ade

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I don't know why Microsoft is not publicizing this workaround.
I had been working on Vista mail issues for several months
already before I learned of the existence of this obscure fix.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

Thank you Gary for the workaround, much appreciated, however it still seems
strange that it takes a 3rd party program to enable this feature.
Another overlooked feature by Microsoft?

Regards
Ade

"Client" is the keyword. Unless your email 'client' is registered
with the OS, there is no way for a MailTo link in IE to work properly.
If you go to the Programs tab in Vista's IE7, it will send you to the
Default Programs applet. It just so happens that there is a workaround
to register Windows Live Hotmail with Vista's Default Programs:

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/224/1/
--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

In all previous IE versions you could configure IE to use your web mail
client to open the mailto link, by going to internet options, programs and
selecting your client from the drop down box, but now this is not available
in IE7, i am sure you should still be able to do this can any one shed some
light on the subject?
I used to have Hotmail associated, when i clicked on the mailto link,
hotmail would open a new message.

 

[mystermathers]

Hi Warren,
I encountered a similar problem. Windows mail extracted all the
messages from my yahoo mail.
There was none on the yahoo mail.

After fiddling arround a bit, I found a way to get the mail back on
the yahoo mail server.
The steps are as follows
1. In your windows mail client, move all the messages to "deleted
items" folder
2. Now synchronize your yahoo mail account in the windows mail client
3. You will see that all the mail appears in yahoo mail's trash. You
can then move it to inbox or wherever you would like.
Note: All the above would happen if you are synchronizing all the mail
(not just the new).

It worked for me consistently.
Thanks.
Srikanth

I cant seem to find where u would synchronize the mail, i did everything like you said and it doesnt seem to work out for me.??

 

[MARCALAE]

This didn't work for me either. I followed all your steps. Can anybody help?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Instead of quoting somebody else's post, it is best to start your own
new post, describe the problem in detail and what you have tried so far.