How do I restore my yahoo inbox after setting up outlook?

savodoccom

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May 3, 2009, 11:21:01 PM5/3/09

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I just set up outlook 2007 to my yahoo.co.k email account but did not tick
the ''leave copy of messages on server'' at the time.
One day later I tried to access my yahoo inbox and found it completely
empty!. This is going to be frustrating for me as i like to be able to access
my yahoo email anywhere as sometimes I save important information on it.

Now all my messages are in my outlook account, can I transfer them back to
my yahoo inbox?

Really appreciate the help!

Bruce Hagen

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May 3, 2009, 11:37:13 PM5/3/09

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Outlook and Outlook Express are entirely different programs. You will get
better help in an MS Outlook newsgroup:

On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general&cat=en_US_db03bd1f-73aa-41e1-abfd-27a6e3c352e5&lang=en&cr=US
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Bruce Hagen
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Imperial Beach, CA

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N. Miller

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May 4, 2009, 1:13:46 PM5/4/09

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No. Yahoo! only supports POP3, but you would need an IMAP account to restore
the email to the server intact. Forwarding them back to the account will
alter the header details.

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Norman
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1@discussions.microsoft.com Angel 1

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Jul 1, 2009, 6:27:04 AM7/1/09

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"N. Miller" wrote:

I chose to return to post this because this is one of the forums I visited
within the week when I was seeking for a solution to a similar problem.
I had over 5000 e-mails downloaded from my yahoo account to Microsoft
Outlook with my inbox emptied in the process with no hope of restoration, if
what I gathered on the internet and from yahoo was anything to go by.
But eventually this is what I found out:

You can restore e-mails downloaded by Microsoft Outlook to Yahoo e-mail with
the date and original headings intact.
This is how I did it:
1) Transfer your e-mails downloaded to Microsoft outlook to a Googlemail or
Gmail account via IMAP.
This can be done by enabling the imap settings on the Gmail account and
setting up the Microsoft Outlook to transfer the e-mail to the
Gmail/Googlemail account. If you have an existing one, well and good,
otherwise I suggest you register one for this purpose.
Then you need to transfer the Emails from outlook to Gmail Via Outlook
Connector
You can learn how to do that through info on this link:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/move-emails-from-hotmail-to-gmail-outlook-imap/1951/
2) Next, all you need to do is to transfer all e-mails on the
Gmail/Googlemail to your yahoo account. To do this you need to visit a site
called True Switch see provided link
https://secure5.trueswitch.com/yahoo-intl/?country=gb&language=en
here you will be asked to fill a form asking for:
a) Your old e-mail address, which in this case in the Gmail or Google
account which is where you are transferring the e-mails from
and
b) Your new e-mail address, which is your yahoo account where you are
transferring the e-mails to
(It does not matter the order in which you registered them)
At the end of the page you will prompted to click a button “Start transfer.”
It is as simple as that. You need not do anything else. About two hours or
there about latter you will receive an e-mail from true-switch stating that
the transfer has been made. That it everything will be restored intact the
way it originally was. The only short snag I had was when transferring from
Outlook to Gmail as I had to do it in batches. (Remember I am talking about
0ver 5000 emails here!)
I do not know if the same works with webmail or other servers but maybe you
should search the way I did whether you can transfer from gmail to your
server.
The lesson I leant from this is that the fact that you are told something is
not possible does mean it is. It could just be that it is not possible via
the manner you envisaged but could be done through another means if you
search diligently enough.

PA Bear [MS MVP]

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Jul 1, 2009, 11:13:37 AM7/1/09

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This is not an Outlook newsgroup.

Angel 1 wrote:
<snip>

> I chose to return to post this because this is one of the forums I visited
> within the week when I was seeking for a solution to a similar problem.
> I had over 5000 e-mails downloaded from my yahoo account to Microsoft
> Outlook with my inbox emptied in the process with no hope of restoration,
> if
> what I gathered on the internet and from yahoo was anything to go by.

<snip>

N. Miller

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Jul 1, 2009, 1:41:28 PM7/1/09

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On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 03:27:04 -0700, Angel 1 wrote:

> I chose to return to post this because this is one of the forums I visited
> within the week when I was seeking for a solution to a similar problem.
> I had over 5000 e-mails downloaded from my yahoo account to Microsoft
> Outlook with my inbox emptied in the process with no hope of restoration, if
> what I gathered on the internet and from yahoo was anything to go by.
> But eventually this is what I found out:
>
> You can restore e-mails downloaded by Microsoft Outlook to Yahoo e-mail with
> the date and original headings intact.
> This is how I did it:
> 1) Transfer your e-mails downloaded to Microsoft outlook to a Googlemail or

> Gmail account via IMAP ...

Using any IMAP service, you can upload any email (regardless of the service
which originated it) to their server with the headers intact. That is the
way that IMAP works. However, Yahoo! does not offer IMAP, so there is no way
to restore Yahoo! email intact to the Yahoo! servers.

> I do not know if the same works with webmail or other servers but maybe you
> should search the way I did whether you can transfer from gmail to your
> server.

What you describe only works with IMAP accounts. Not every web mail service
offers IMAP access. However, if your service does not offer IMAP access, you
can use a service which does offer IMAP access, if you want to create a new
account.

> The lesson I leant from this is that the fact that you are told something is
> not possible does mean it is. It could just be that it is not possible via
> the manner you envisaged but could be done through another means if you
> search diligently enough.

If a person wants to restore downloaded Yahoo! email to the Yahoo! mail
serves, it is not possible. Period. If you just want to have access to those
email messages from any place on the Internet, and don't care that whether
they are on the Yahoo! mail servers, any IMAP server will accept them in
synchronization. Fastmail and AOL Mail would work as well as Gmail.

--
Norman
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