Migrating 1 yahoo mail account to another yahoo account for free

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  1. Pasta88

    Pasta88 MDL Expert

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    Hi,
    My yahoo email account has been hacked. I have many email and folders in it that I want to keep. I would like to create another yahoo email with a different name and password. Is there an easy way to transfer the emails from from my hacked account to my newer yahoo account?

    If someone could let me know i would appreciate it.



    TIA
     
  2. acer-5100

    acer-5100 MDL Guru

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    If the your account is enabled to IMAP acccess just use a decent email client (Vivaldi, Operamail, Thunderbird...) then drag and drop (or copy/cut and paste) your emails/emails folder(s) from an account to another, just like you would do with plain files on a local filesystem.
     
  3. ohenry

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    It would probably be helpful if you define "many email". Do you have 500? 5,000? 50,000? I presently have 108k emails in my Gmail account, most of which are worthless. But trying to weed out the worthless ones just isn't worth the effort, so I pay about $20 a year for 100 GB of storage, problem solved.
     
  4. ipx

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  5. acer-5100

    acer-5100 MDL Guru

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    Define deceased.

    It works today like it worked 6 or 10 years ago, and it's still the best email client out there, Vivaldi's mail is getting closer and closer release after release
     
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  7. acer-5100

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    Obsolete stupidity (speaking of SW) has never rang a bell at my home

    But speaking of the specific case

    #1 We are talking of something that will be used once, for few minutes/hours, depending on the size of the involved mailboxes

    #2 We are talking of a client, not a server. All it has to do is to access a remote server and to simplify the IMAP managing, where the security concern should be in that scenario? A *really* obsolete email client just can't log on a current server, and that's not the case of OM.

    #3 Aside #1 and #2, Operamail is still light years more advanced than anything else, I use it daily, personally so I talk about something I know very well, and I suggest to do the same. Clearly you never used it in the past, nor tried to use it after reading my comments.

    #4 Speaking more in general, in the last 40 years I never catched a single malware, a good part thanks I'm used to keep a couple of neurons engaged and also thanks I never used IE4/5/6 or Chrome, like the herd did/does. Opera 3 - 12 proved to be the best "antivirus" for 25 years, just like Vivaldi did in the last 5.

    #5 OSes are my hobby, so I use in multiple boot, literally anything, from PClinuxOS 2007 or *buntu 8 or win 95 to the latest bleading edge releases and still never had a problem.
    99% of the security concerns/warning are just a way to push a consumerist idea of the IT world, and to build higher and more impenetrable walls around your garden.

    In 2022 your main concern should be called Google, Apple, MS, Tencent, Meta, Amazon and so on, not a random Romanian hacker
     
  8. Mr.X

    Mr.X MDL Guru

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    Thank you for this, didn't know Vivaldi has an integrated email client + RSS Feed reader.
    The interface in dark mode looks beautiful. I'm starting to love it.
     
  9. Yen

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    OP is about to migrate from yahoo to another yahoo account....not info about other providers..
     
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  10. acer-5100

    acer-5100 MDL Guru

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    Uh?

    Who ever mentioned other providers here? :eek:
     
  11. Yen

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    Gmail...
    I accidentally deleted some posts.o_O
    Restored.
     
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  12. Pasta88

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    would i add both email accounts (such as yahoo and outlook via imap) to thunderbird and copy and past that way?
     
  13. acer-5100

    acer-5100 MDL Guru

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    Yes.
     
  14. sonic9

    sonic9 MDL Member

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    imapsync has a free online version.
    command line available too.