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Learn How to Download Yahoo Mail to Computer with Efficient Methods

admin | July 12th, 2019 | Technology

Have you ever tried to know how to download Yahoo mail to computer? If you are in the stage and want to perform the task by your self, then be with the article to its end. Here we will be discussing various methods to download Yahoo email folders to computer hard drive.

Yahoo mail (also, known as Ymail!) is a well-known email client, that has a vast user count including you. You may know that Yahoo mail comes in the list of top 10 email clients having a large number of users. The new to Yahoo must know, Yahoo mail is a very early email client that started up in the 1990s and still moving on. The user that started their mail at that time will be having a large number of emails in their email folders. Though Yahoo provides a storage space of 1 TB, the data from a long time fill it up faster. Plus, among you would be some who will be willing to backup some important data from their Ymail account.

Yahoo mail also faces many issues that lead some among you to move from Yahoo to other mail clients as well. We will be discussing the issues that are faced by the Yahoo mail users in the coming section downside. Now, we directly move to the solution and understand how to download Yahoo mail to computer / external hard drive.

How to Download Emails and Pictures from Yahoo Mail to Computer?

For every problem held, there come two approaches as a solution. Here as well, we have two techniques that complete this task. They are:

  1. Move Yahoo mail to Outlook / Thunderbird and backup Yahoo data to hard drive

  2. Directly download Yahoo email to computer

We will be discussing each among the method in the below sections. We start with the direct method.

How to Download Yahoo Mail to Computer Directly?

For direct transfer of Yahoo emails and the attachments (docs, pictures, videos, etc) to hard drive, we have come up with a supreme solution, Yahoo backup Tool. This application as extraordinary features and functionalities that effortlessly exports and saves a copy of Yahoo emails on computer or any mounted hard / flash drive.

Some features of this approach are mentioned below

  • Backup Yahoo emails and attachments to local machine

  • Save Yahoo emails in PST / EML / MBOX / MSG file types

  • Option to filter emails with a specific date range

  • Archive Yahoo emails to local hard drive (not in account)

  • Set bandwidth preference for smooth backup

  • Manage live download process manually

download yahoo mail to computer

Come let’s see how this works to download Yahoo email to computer hard drive. For that, you need to download and install the utility in your premise system. After that perform as mentioned below

Steps to Export Yahoo Emails in Hard Drive:

  1. Launch the utility & Login with your Yahoo credential

  2. Select the file format for backup

  3. Click on Apply Filter for selective backup

  4. Choose Delete after Download to free account storage

  5. Browse a destination to save the Yahoo emails copy

  6. Hit on the Start button

After the process is completed, a notification pops-up, click “OK”. This will complete the download process and you can view the exported file(s) at the specified location.

Now we move to the next method and see how to download Yahoo mail to computer with this approach.

Manual Process to Download & Save Yahoo Email Folders to Computer

In this approach, you will need to add your Yahoo mail to another email client that supports an export function. Some email clients that perform this function are Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail, Zoho, Apple mail, etc. You can choose any email client other than this as well if you find that comfortable. Here, we have used the Outlook application to create a Yahoo email backup.

After Yahoo mail is added to Outlook, then perform the export function in Outlook to download yahoo email to computer.

Thus, we start with the process to add Yahoo mail to Outlook. For this, you need to install the MS Outlook (2019, 2016, or any below version) on your premise system.

Procedure to Add Yahoo Mail to Outlook

  1. Launch MS Outlook application on the system

  2. Go to File menu →move to Info → select Add Account option

  3. Select “Manual setup or additional server types”

  4. Choose the “POP or IMAP” option

  5. Enter server information required

    • Full Name of the user

    • Set Account Type as IMAP (or POP)

    • Enter imap.mail.yahoo.com beside Incoming Server

    • Enter smtp.mail.yahoo.com beside Outgoing Server

  1. Go to More Settings option

    • Move to Outgoing Server section

      1. Check My outgoing server requires authentication

      2. Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server option

    • Shift to Advanced tab

      • For IMAP

        1. Enter 993 & 465 for Incoming & Outgoing Server port numbers

        2. Check SSL encryption for both servers

      • For POP

        1. Enter 995 & 465 for Incoming & Outgoing Server port numbers

        2. Check SSL encryption for both servers

  1. Click OK >> Next >> Finish on consecutive pages

After this restart Outlook to append the changes. The Yahoo email folder will be shown on the left side of the email folder panel.

Once the sync between Outlook and Yahoo is completed, all the emails from Yahoo will be shown on your Outlook mail client. After this download Yahoo mail to computer hard drive with the export function.

Steps to Download Yahoo emails to Computer Manually

  1. On MS Outlook, Move to File menu >> Open & Export >> Import / Export

  2. Choose Export to a file option

  3. Click Outlook Data File (.pst) and proceed

  4. Choose the account and folder to export

  5. Browse the destination to save the PST file so created

  6. Click Finish

This will create a backup of your Yahoo emails and its attachments.

Now we shall discuss some issues by which some among you search methods on how to download Yahoo mail to computer.

Issues Faced by Yahoo mail Users

The Yahoo mail in the past few time period is showing a downstage. In other terms, the Yahoo mail is showing to be in an Outage zone for the last few periods of time. You can see the Yahoo mail down status of your region through the downdetector. There are other issues that lead among to you to backup your Yahoo data, some are

  1. Data Hacked from Yahoo mail servers

  2. Yahoo mail login issues

  3. Yahoo mail not downloading attachments

  4. Email messages not able to be viewed

  5. Not receiving emails

These are some issues that we have found, that the yahoo users face. There could be other reasons as well. But the major one that leads a user to download Yahoo email to computer hard drive is discussed above.

Wrapping It All Together!!

Yahoo mail is a popular email client having a large number of users. There come several reasons for the user to keep a backup of their important data at the local end. So, for such users, we have discussed some approaches on how to download Yahoo mail to computer. If you find any method comfortable and easy to use try it and resolve your issue comfortably.

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