Despite all Yahoo management's efforts, Yahoo! Mail is a mess - the "new" interface doesn't offer anything useful and their mail servers are prone to spam and all sorts of malware. However, the old dotcom mainstay has been around for so long most people have email stored on their servers that prevented them from closing their account and moving on from their decrepit service. Although Yahoo! didn't widely publicize it, their email service allows POP3 and IMAP service. In the old days, only Yahoo! premium members (and certain countries like Australia) could download their email to clients like Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird (or you can use a proxy email server like YahooPOPS). If you're ready to end your relationship with Yahoo!, now is a good time as any to back up your Yahoo! mail and delete your Yahoo! account permanently.
Opera Mail is a dependable standalone email client. Although Mozilla Thunderbird is still around, it hasn't seen much development lately making Opera Mail a great alternative for Windows users. To backup your email and attachments, set up a POP or IMAP connection in Opera Mail. This article focuses on POP.
To set up Yahoo! Mail for Opera Mail:
1. Log in to Yahoo mail and click the Settings button on the upper right hand corner.
2. On the left panel, click POP and Forwarding.
3. Select Access Yahoo! Mail via POP. Select Don't download spam email in the list.
4. Click Save.
5. Launch Opera Mail.
6. Click the Opera Mail main menu in the upper left hand corner and click Mail Accounts...
7. Click Add...
8. Input your email address. The Yahoo account will now appear on the Accounts list. Select your Yahoo email and click Edit...
9. In the Account Properties window, click the Servers tab.
10. Enter Yahoo's POP information. You can get both the IMAP and POP details from Yahoo!'s Help page.
Take note that if you've had your Yahoo! Mail for a number of years (like me), it takes awhile for all of the messages to end up on your system. In my case, it took two sessions on my Windows 7 to get all of my messages from 2007-2010 (I had already backed up my old messages from the 90s).
To find the location of your messages, click the Opera Mail main menu then click Help. Click About Opera Mail. The mail directory will be listed on the window.
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