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Does yahoo mail allow you to copy the entire inbox at once?
Alright folks, I have to raze people's inboxes fairly regularly to gather evidence for court cases. Yahoo is probably the most frequently used e-mail I come across, followed by G-mail. So, it would be a LOT faster for me if I could just copy the entire Inbox to a CD at one shot, rather than select and copy over each and every message. After all, most of the people I deal with have more than 300 messages in their inbox, and often have multiple folders. I'm not terribly computer savvy. Could someone please tell me how to do this, if indeed it is possible?
Thank you!
Oh yes, actually I do have to copy every single e-mail from the accounts. Could you please tell me how to do it with a POP3 enabled account?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Since Yahoo and Gmail are web accounts, each individual mail has a separate URL address. It is not like downloaded mail where you can copy individual folders with all their contents.
There are no shortcuts at all, unless they have POP3 access in their account so it can be downloaded to the computer. Even with downloaded mail like Outlook and Thunderbird, each folder must be copied separately. Besides, surely you did not wish to copy every single mail in the account, for privacy reasons.