Recovering Lost Emails

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When I switched to a new computer, I did not configure my Outlook to save
POP3 messages on the server. As a result, all of my old emails on Yahoo were
deleted. However, all the old emails were saved on my new Outlook.

Is there any way to resend all my old emails on Outlook to my yahoo account
without having the sender be me? In other words, can I somehow have my old
emails back as they were originally with the original sender?
 
elee913 said:
When I switched to a new computer, I did not configure my Outlook to save
POP3 messages on the server. As a result, all of my old emails on Yahoo were
deleted. However, all the old emails were saved on my new Outlook.

Is there any way to resend all my old emails on Outlook to my yahoo account
without having the sender be me? In other words, can I somehow have my old
emails back as they were originally with the original sender?
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Nope. That's how POP works by default. When you RETR (retrieve) a mail
item, and if the RETR status is good, a DELE (delete) command is sent
afterward to remove the copy from the mail server since a copy is now in
your local e-mail client. You have to configure the "leave message on
server" option before you poll your POP account the first time.

Now you have all your old e-mails in Outlook and they were deleted from
the POP mail server. The only way to get them back up on the mail
server is to send them there again. But, as you mention, that means you
will show up as the sender of those old e-mails. Instead of forwarding
them to yourself inline (i.e., strip the headers and put the original
within the body of a new mail), you could forward them as an attachment.
They will still show as you sending yourself the e-mail but you can open
the attachment to see the original e-mail which will still have all the
original headers.
 
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