moving my in-box

now that i can find the answers to my questions (thank y'all), i can go back
to a question i asked when i first signed into windows.

when i first signed into windows mail, it imported all of my inbox from my
yahoo account. it is extremely important to me, to put all of those letters
back into yahoo, to integrate with other mail and info in yahoo.

is there a simple way to export them to yahoo, or, in yahoo, import them
from windows mail? it seems there should be, since they got transferred over
with one fell swoop... forwarding to myself more than two at a time is very
unreliable... things seem to get lost in hyperspace. and since we're talking
of several hundred letters, two at a time will be slow and tedious.

thank you for any light you can shed.

and by the way, in previous answers and give and take about where to look up
my Qs&As, someone was referring to the OP. is that me? what does it stand
for?

again, thanks...
--
cee

cee wrote:

> now that i can find the answers to my questions (thank y'all), i can go
> back to a question i asked when i first signed into windows.
>
> when i first signed into windows mail, it imported all of my inbox from my
> yahoo account. it is extremely important to me, to put all of those
> letters back into yahoo, to integrate with other mail and info in yahoo.
>
> is there a simple way to export them to yahoo, or, in yahoo, import them
> from windows mail? it seems there should be, since they got transferred
> over
> with one fell swoop... forwarding to myself more than two at a time is
> very
> unreliable... things seem to get lost in hyperspace. and since we're
> talking of several hundred letters, two at a time will be slow and
> tedious.
>
> thank you for any light you can shed.
>
> and by the way, in previous answers and give and take about where to look
> up
> my Qs&As, someone was referring to the OP. is that me? what does it
> stand for?

Hi, cee - I can't really help with your email question, but you might get a
good answer from the Windows Mail experts if you post in the Windows Mail
newsgroup. It's microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail. Or the Yahoo email
support folks might know.

As for OP, it stands for "Original Poster" so yes, it does mean you. :-)

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

"cee" <> wrote in message
news:1F85FE69-A0E7-421F-828D-...
> now that i can find the answers to my questions (thank y'all), i can go
> back
> to a question i asked when i first signed into windows.
>
> when i first signed into windows mail, it imported all of my inbox from my
> yahoo account. it is extremely important to me, to put all of those
> letters
> back into yahoo, to integrate with other mail and info in yahoo.
>
> is there a simple way to export them to yahoo, or, in yahoo, import them
> from windows mail? it seems there should be, since they got transferred
> over
> with one fell swoop... forwarding to myself more than two at a time is
> very
> unreliable... things seem to get lost in hyperspace. and since we're
> talking
> of several hundred letters, two at a time will be slow and tedious.
>
> thank you for any light you can shed.
>
> and by the way, in previous answers and give and take about where to look
> up
> my Qs&As, someone was referring to the OP. is that me? what does it
> stand
> for?
>
> again, thanks...
> --
> cee

First, OP = Original Poster, the person who asked the question in the first
place.

This really isn't a Vista question, but I will suggest that you need to be a
bit clearer, so I'll ask you if this is correct:

You set up Windows Mail, pointed it to your Yahoo webmail account, and let
it go. Now, all of the mail that was visible when you logged into Yahoo
mail is gone.

If that's correct - it's normal for the default settings of most mail
clients. These generally have an advanced setting called "leave a copy of
the mail on the server", and by default, this is OFF.

By default, the mail client talks to the mail server, asks for any mail it
doesn't have, and at the end of the transfer tells the mail server to delete
the messages. This is for a good reason - it's very possible to fill your
server space with old mail, though this is a bit less of a problem these
days with cheap large drives.

Downloading (It isn't importing) all that mail can break mail clients, if
the mailbox on the server is larger than the client supports, and corrupts
the inbox. This can cause an amount of grief when you can't get into the
mail you have and can't download new mail and making a fresh profile
triggers a several-hour download that immediately corrupts the new client
inbox. I've had to fix this a few times.

As far as I know, there is no way short of sending them to yourself again to
get them back on the server. And if you do that, you lose all the sorting
features you wanted; all the messages are from you, today.

Sorry, but as far as I know, there isn't better news.

HTH
-pk