Post B2UkDgXeWV8aggk0P2 by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #B2UBLKSX0rN07XFsOW by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
       2026-01-20T19:22:54Z
       
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       #AskFedi : How to bulk download all emails in inbox from #Yahoo email?  I confess, I do not have a good habit of archiving and backing-up my emails. Now my inbox is booming and reaching ~10k emails since I have subscribed to a few mail lists. I do have #Alpine set up locally on my laptop to read them once in a while.  I tried Select All and Save in Alpine however it is too slow and easily fail simply because it took so long that remote server would kill the connection.#FOSS #Unix #Linux
       
 (DIR) Post #B2UBLLTzCw7zIKwYIi by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
       2026-01-20T19:24:51Z
       
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       Tried with #Thunderbird too, it simply download every single email as a eml file separately, meaning I will get ~10K files if it succeed!
       
 (DIR) Post #B2UWO5sRmbUenkXKKW by tedel@writing.exchange
       2026-01-20T22:14:48Z
       
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       @kaixin Use an email client, like Thunderbird, add your Yahoo! account with either POP or IMAP protocol, and let the software download a copy of all your messages for you.POP will download it from the server and erase the copy on Yahoo! servers. IMAP will synchronize your emails so that they are a copy of server and computer.Hope this helps.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2UWO7Gwb0gP810P9U by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
       2026-01-20T23:18:40Z
       
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       Thanks for the advice. I have Thunderbird but I set it to IMAP. I can set to POP3 but I think: 1. There is no bulk download mode? All emails will still be separately files? 2. The downloaded copy will be in the Thunderbird dataset and will only be loadable again with Thunderbird? I was thinking about a flat text copy so that I can grep/search when needed.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2UkDf4txuXs9EHWwy by tedel@writing.exchange
       2026-01-21T01:12:00Z
       
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       @kaixin I think you cannot switch it to POP. You would need a new configuration.You can opt to leave a copy of every email on the server, but if you don't, your email client copy will be your last copy (backups are recommended).There is no bulk download, but you should still get everything.Thunderbird stores all emails in one file. You can switch to one-email-per-file mode, but I haven't tried it. Test it first, I guess. There are other mail clients to explore if you need that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2UkDgXeWV8aggk0P2 by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
       2026-01-21T01:55:47Z
       
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       Thanks very much! I think I got it. Yes I had to delete SMTP account and add back using POP instead. And there is a local copy of all mails in one Inbox text file, that's good. Only little remaining issue is that even I have downloaded all of the inbox locally, the copy in Inbox when I check online is still there, not deleted. But I guess I can just safely delete all since I know I have a local copy now.