The easiest way to save or download hundreds of emails at once from your Yahoo! Mail account is to use a third-party email backup program like MailStore Home. With MailStore Home, you can easily backup your all emails in your Yahoo! Mail account with ease.
NOTE: Please note that MailStore Home software is completely free but only for home and non-commercial purpose only. If you’re going to use this software in a commercial environment, be sure to purchase the program.
MailStore Home not only lets you backup emails from Yahoo! Mail but also from other webmail services such as Gmail, Outlook.com, and AOL. In addition to those webmail services, it can also backup emails you’re your desktop email clients like Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail, and Mozilla Thunderbird.
However, in this guide, we’re going to use this software to download or save emails from Yahoo! Mail account only. But the procedure to download emails from other webmail services isn’t very different with MailStore.
Download emails from Yahoo! Mail account
Step 1: Visit this page of MailStore Home and download the free copy of the software. The setup file is under 6 MB and supports all recent versions of Windows, both 32 and 64-bit.
Step 2: Run the setup program and follow the straight-forward on-screen instructions to get it installed. Please note that the setup program lets you create a portable version of the software on a drive so that you can use MailStore Home without actually installing it.
Step 3: Once installed, launch MailStore Home program. Under Quick Access (see picture), click on the option labelled Archive E-mail to proceed to the next step.
Step 4: Here, under Create Profile section, type in your email ID, and then click Start button. For instance, if your email ID is [email protected], please type the same in the box before clicking the Start button.
Step 5: In the following step, you’ll be asked to enter the password of your email account. Enter the same and then click OK button to continue. MailStore will automatically connect to Microsoft severs to detect settings.
Note: You don’t need to manually configure server settings for your Yahoo! Mail account. MailStore automatically detects required settings and tests the same before commencing to download emails.
Step 6: Finally, you’ll see the following screen with “MailStore has created a new profile for you. Double-click it to start archiving” message. Click OK button.
Now, select your profile and then click Run button to begin downloading your emails. Depending on the number of emails present in your inbox and your internet connection speed, MailStore might take up to hours to complete the process.
The good thing is that if for some reason your internet connection stops working or your PC restarts, you don’t need to start all over again. Simply select you profile (as mentioned in Step 6) and then click Run button again to resume the download work.
Once all emails are saved in your PC, you can open and view them. Note that MailStore also lets you restore saved emails to an email account.
That’s it!
bill says
Shit does not work for yahoo mail. Dont use it…
james says
There are multiple backup tools are available to take yahoo backup. You need to choose the right one to take all your emails backup from yahoo server to a local drive. I know few tools for windows that can download all your emails from yahoo server to PST, EML, EMLX, MSG and MBOX file format. if you want to take a backup from yahoo to local hard drive or computer.
Visit here: toolsbaer.com/yahoo-backup/
Karen Grube says
Mailstore has constant issues with their archive process failing in Yahoo mail. I have been using their software for a couple of years now, and until recently, it worked well. However, now the program always completes with errors and no one is providing any help except to say to keep running the program periodically and that it’s Yahoo that’s blocking their request at their server. Neither Mailstore nor Yahoo has been particularly helpful. The support for the Mailstore Home version is extremely limited. You won’t get much of a response other than “Try running the program again tomorrow. Maybe Yahoo will let the program complete successfully.” And Yahoo just tells you to go back and complain to Mailstore.
I don’t know why this keeps happening. I only know it’s very frustrating that neither Yahoo nor Mailstore takes responsibility for finding out what’s going on and resolving it.
GabeS says
June 29 2017, 6:45pm. Downloaded home version, latest version of MailStore, for my yahoo backup. MailStore is unable to access my yahoo email account to backup. I even used manual settings, POP3-SSL, server name: mail.yahoo.com, but still gave me the same error. Does anyone have a fix?
Thanks
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admin says
Thanks Sandra for suggesting a new tool to backup Yahoo mails. Will try it.
Sandra Diaz says
Thanks for sharing this information.
I have come across another tool while searching on google. The tool’s name is ‘SysTools Yahoo Backup’.
I liked some features of this software, like:
a) selective emails backup
b) backup emails of a single or multiple user accounts
PS: I have not used this software yet, I am only recommending this tool only on the basis of customer reviews.
Bobby K says
What version of mailstore are you running? The version that I am running you have to input the type of mailbox for instance yahoo! is Imap-ssl…