Fw: Jim Bell's Email crash
David
wb8foz at nrk.com
Thu Jan 30 15:19:47 PST 2014
On 1/30/14 2:20 PM, jim bell wrote:
> (Raising the question: Is there a reasonably straightforward mechanism
> to allow a disgusted user to (easily and automatically) transfer all of
> his emails from one system to another? Obviously, email service
> providers are motivated to try to lock in users, but maybe there's a way
> to fight this.)
IMAP.
I have IMAP set up on my Yahoo account:
Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
Port: 993
Username: xxx at yahoo.com
SSL/TLS
Then I can just transfer messages to another IMAP account.
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